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Mae M. Ngai

    The Chinese Question
    The Lucky Ones
    Impossible Subjects
    • Traces the origins of the illegal alien in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.

      Impossible Subjects
    • The Lucky Ones

      • 344 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. The author paints a picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type - middle- class Chinese Americans.

      The Lucky Ones
    • The Chinese Question

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
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      How Chinese migration to the world's goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race

      The Chinese Question