Looking back as a historian of immigration and religion, I'm struck by three changes in U.S. views of immigration over the course of the 19th century.. Religion, more than race. By the 20th ...

The ban was part of rising anti-Chinese sentiment and broader anti-Asian legislation in the 19th century. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed to stop Chinese immigrants from becoming ...

This law prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the U.S. It also made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship. By the early 20th century, Columbus had a booming ...

In my family, tales of anti-Chinese racism are passed from one generation to the next. A century ago, my great-grandparents, Wallace and Tungert Chong, were forced to get special documentation ...

In the mid-19th century, Chinese immigrants built much of the developing American West. The community was often met with hostility and violence.

The history of Chinese immigrants in America has always been about much more than one ethnic group. As Michael Luo’s Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the ...

Emma J. Teng, a professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT, is author of the book Eurasian: Mixed Identities in Hong Kong, China and the US during the Treaty Port Era, 1842-1943, which looks at ...

The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first significant crackdown on immigration in American history. We explore the factors that led to the Act and examine what happened to the economy after it passed.

In the 19th century, ... These perceptions of contract workers were built upon the existing racist idea that Chinese immigrants to the United States were “coolies,” or unfree indentured workers.

In fact, as Prof. Ferdinand Philip Victoria's research has shown, Chinese immigrants in the 19th century were engaged in the business of narcotics and illegal gambling (among others), often with ...

19th-century Supreme Court case takes center stage in birthright citizenship appeal. ... Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of Chinese immigrants. Monique Merrill / June 4, ...