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A Nation of Immigrants: The Chinese-American Experience
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Media Type:Videocassette
Release Date:1991
Audience:Higher Education
Secondary Education
Running Time:20 min.
Physical Description:1 videocassette (20 min.): col.; 1/2"
Language:English
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Diaspora and Ethnicity
History
Politics and Government
Subheading:Chinese
Discrimination and Racism
Emigration and Immigration
History, 1900-1950
History, 1951-1980
History, Modern (19th-20th Century)
Human Rights
Identity
Minority groups
Social Conditions
Region:East Asia
Immigration/Diaspora
Country:China



Abstract:

"In this program, the plight of Chinese immigrants -- unfairly treated and even hated for their 'otherness' -- is explored. Attracted to the U.S. by the need for farm and railroad laborers and by news of the California Gold Rush, Chinese came by the hundreds of thousands, only to experience extremely hard work, pitifully low wages, and racial discrimination. In the west, they became the victims of race riots and discriminatory laws, and in 1882 the federal government created the Chinese Exclusion Act to restrict further immigration. Finally, after World War II this racist law was repealed, and the nation has since been enriched by immigrants from China."




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