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Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was the first law passed by the U.S. government barring a specific group of people from entering America because of race or nationality. President Chester Alan Arthur signed it into law on May 6, 1882.
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- 1.5-Generation Asian American
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- Code Switching
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- Families (Overview)
- Gender and Sexuality
- Immigrant Families
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- Stereotypes: Dragon Lady or Docile
- Stereotypes: Sexuality
- Tiger Mothers
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- History of Asian Americans
- Korematsu v. United States
- Angel Island: Immigration Station
- Anti-Martial Law Movement
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- Asian Settler Colonialism
- Chinatown, Monterey Park
- Chinatowns
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- Executive Order 9066
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- Foreign Policy: U.S. and China in World War II
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- Hawai‘ian Monarchy, Overthrow of
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- Korean War
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- Transcontinental Railroads
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- World War II
- Yellow Peril
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- Yellow
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- Ellis Island
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- Family Reunification 1965 Immigration Act
- Filipino Immigration
- Immigration (Overview)
- Immigration Policy
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- Korean Immigration Pre-1945
- Refugees
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- Thai Refugee/Immigration
- Undocumented Immigrants
- Vietnamese Refugee/Immigration
- Visas
- Politics, Government, and Public Policy
- Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong
- Alcatraz, Occupation of
- Anti-Miscegenation Laws
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles
- Asian Exclusion Acts
- Asian Law Caucus
- Asian Women United of California
- Census Demographic Shifts
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell
- Elected Officials
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- Foreign Miner's Tax
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- Isolationist Policy, U.S.
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- Massie-Kahahawai Case
- Policy and Research
- Politics
- Social Justice
- War Brides Act
- White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
- Religion
- Social Movement and Social Change
- Asian American Justice Center
- Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
- Chin, Vincent
- Chinese American Citizens Alliance
- Civil Rights
- Demonstration Project for Asian Americans
- Family Reunification 1965 Immigration Act
- Feminism, Asian American
- Japanese American Citizens League
- LGBTQ Asian American Activism
- Los Angeles Riots/Sa-I-Gu
- National Council for Japanese American Redress
- Organization of Chinese American Women
- Social Problems
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