History 270

Lecture 11

IMMIGRATION FROM THE EAST:

ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICA

I.   Introduction:  Racial Uniform

II.  In Search of Gold Mountain:  Chinese in America

A.  A bright future?

B.  Exclusion from the Gold Mines

C.  Labor Conflict

D.  Chinatowns

1.  Tongs

E.  Violence

F.  The Drive for Exclusion

1.  1882 Chinese Exclusion Act

G.  The San Francisco Earthquake (1906)

1.  "Paper Sons"

H.  Angel Island

1.  Life on the Island

III. The Japanese Immigrant Experience

A.  Who were these immigrants?

B.  Rise of the Exclusion Movement

C.  Race and Labor

1.  Japanese-Mexican Labor Association

D.  A Growing Japanese Community

E.  More Exclusion

1.  California Alien Land Law, 1913

2.  California Oriental Exclusion League, 1919