Description: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
Brief description: Erika Lee is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Review Quotes:
"This is the most thorough, complex, and subtle study I have read about Chinese immigration during the era of exclusion. Erika Lee's book offers both a remarkable social history of the Chinese immigrants who challenged the laws meant to keep them out and a sobering account of how suspicions of nonwhite immigrants legitimated the expansion of repressive state power. A major contribution to the history of immigration, race, and nation in modern America."--Gary Gerstle, author of American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century