The Chinese Exclusion Act: What It Can Teach Us about America

This book explores two critical strands in American Studies: policy conversations on legal and illegal immigration and social and educational conversations on diversity and multiculturalism. As author Benjamin Railton shows, a fresh look at the Chinese Exclusion Act overturns much of the received wisdom on immigration and American identity.

Author: B. Railton
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 06/11/2013
Pages: 74
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9781137339089

About the Author
Ben Railton is Associate Professor of English Studies and American Studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, USA. He is the author of Redefining American Identity: From Cabeza de Vaca to Barack Obama (2011); Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 (2007); and numerous articles on American literature and culture.