Book written by 2011 Abe Fellow
Lon Kurashige that draws from his project “Closing the Gates Again?  Lessons from the US-Japan Immigration Crisis.”

 From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act
of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United
States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon
Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian exclusion
was not the product of an ongoing national consensus; it was a subject
of fierce debate. This book complicates the exclusion story by examining
the organized and well-funded opposition to discrimination that
involved some of the most powerful public figures in American politics,
business, religion, and academia. In recovering this opposition,
Kurashige explains the rise and fall of exclusionist policies through an
unstable and protracted political rivalry that began in the 1850s with
the coming of Asian immigrants, extended to the age of exclusion from
the 1880s until the 1960s, and since then has shaped the memory of past
discrimination.

In this first book-length analysis of both
sides of the debate, Kurashige argues that exclusion-era policies were
more than just enactments of racism; they were also catalysts for
U.S.-Asian cooperation and the basis for the twenty-first century’s
tightly integrated Pacific world.

Publication Details

Title
Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
Authors
Kurashige, Lon
Publisher
University of North Carolina / University of North Carolina Press
Publish Date
September 2016
ISBN
9781469629438
Citation
Kurashige, Lon, Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States (University of North Carolina / University of North Carolina Press, September 2016).
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