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The Chinese Exclusion Act. What it Can Teach Us About America.
Benjamin Railton
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Description for The Chinese Exclusion Act. What it Can Teach Us About America.
Hardback. This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the received wisdom on immigration and American identity. Num Pages: 82 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 259.
This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the received wisdom on immigration and American identity.
This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the received wisdom on immigration and American identity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
82
Condition
New
Number of Pages
74
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137339089
SKU
V9781137339089
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Benjamin Railton
Ben Railton is Associate Professor of English Studies and American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Redefining American Identity: From Cabeza de Vaca to Barack Obama (2011); Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 (2007); and numerous articles on American literature and culture.
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