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lly and Ken Owens AwardWinner of the Vincent P. DeSantis Book PrizeWinner of the Caroline Bancroft History PrizeA powerful argument about racial violence that could not be more timely.Richard WhiteA riveting, beautifully written accountthat foregrounds Chinese voices and experiences. A timely and important contribution to our understanding of immigration and the border.Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at DawnIn 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence, and how this gave rise to the concept of the alien in America.Our story begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliensand long before Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act, the nations first attempt to bar immigration based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment failed to slow Chinese migration, armed vigilante groups took the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, policymakers redoubled their efforts to seal the borders, overhauling immigration law and transforming Americas relationship with China in the process. By tracing the idea of the alien back to this violent era, Lew-Williams offers a troubling new origin story of todays racialized border.The Chinese Must Go shows how a country that was moving, in a piecemeal and halting fashion, toward an expansion of citizenship for formerly enslaved people and Native Americans, came to deny other classes of people the right to naturalize altogetherThe stories of racist violence and community shunning are brutal to read.Rebecca Onion, Slate

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24 September 2021

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