Chinese Exclusion Act

Bibliography

Articles

• Salyer, Lucy. “Captives of Law: Judicial Enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, 1891–1905.” Journal of American History 76, no. 1 (1989): 91–117.

Books

• Ahmad, Diane L. The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth Century American West. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2011.
• Coolidge, Mary Roberts. Chinese Immigration. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1909.
• Fritz, Christian G. “Due Process, Treaty Rights, and Chinese Exclusion, 1882–1891.” Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882–1943, ed. Sucheng Chan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.
• Gold, Martin B. Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History. Alexandria, VA: TheCapitol.Net, 2012.
• Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
• Lee, Erika. At America's Gate: Chinese Exclusion during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
• Lee, Erika. "The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and Origins of American Gatekeeping." In Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2010.
• McClain, Charles J. In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• Miller, Marion Mills. “Chinese Exclusion.” In Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764–1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912–1913), vol. 11. New York: Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913.
• Saxton, Alexander. The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.
• Soennichsen, John. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.
• Wong, Marie Rose. Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004.
• Yung, Judy. The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2018.