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THE UNWELCOME IMMIGRANT: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882,
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which re-evaluates the negative impressions of the Chinese in the United States before the first exclusionary account, and which concludes that it was not California which was affected. Notes, bibliographical note, index. x, 259 pp
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (previous owner's name, overall edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 80460More details Price: $25.00 -
THE INDISPENSABLE ENEMY: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1975). An important study both of the labor movement and of its persistent hostility to Chinese workers - a hostility which was institutionalized in California politics with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Winner of the 1971 California Silver Medal. Footnotes, bibliographic note, index. x, 293 pp. ISBN: 0-520029054.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 85749More details Price: $15.00