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Author : Dennis Kearney
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Speeches of Dennis Kearney written by Dennis Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chauncey Mitchell Depew
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Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Orations and After-dinner Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew written by Chauncey Mitchell Depew and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerome Alfred Hart
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ISBN 13 : 9781258403508
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book In Our Second Century written by Jerome Alfred Hart and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1104 pages
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Author : Philip J. Ethington
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520927469
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (274 download)
Download or read book The Public City written by Philip J. Ethington and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-07-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group community experience. Instead, he maintains in The Public City, social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.
Author : Reece Jones
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807054062
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book White Borders written by Reece Jones and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This powerful and meticulously argued book reveals that immigration crackdowns … [have] always been about saving and protecting the racist idea of a white America.” —Ibram X. Kendi, award-winning author of Four Hundred Souls and Stamped from the Beginning “A damning inquiry into the history of the border as a place where race is created and racism honed into a razor-sharp ideology.” —Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The End of the Myth Recent racist anti-immigration policies, from the border wall to the Muslim ban, have left many Americans wondering: How did we get here? In what readers call a “chilling and revelatory” account, Reece Jones reveals the painful answer: although the US is often mythologized as a nation of immigrants, it has a long history of immigration restrictions that are rooted in the racist fear of the “great replacement” of whites with non-white newcomers. After the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619, the colonies that became the United States were based on the dual foundation of open immigration for whites from Northern Europe and the racial exclusion of slaves from Africa, Native Americans, and, eventually, immigrants from other parts of the world. Jones’s scholarship shines through his extensive research of the United States’ racist and xenophobic underbelly. He connects past and present to uncover the link between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the “Keep America American” nativism of the 1920s, and the “Build the Wall” chants initiated by former president Donald Trump in 2016. Along the way, we meet a bizarre cast of anti-immigration characters, such as John Tanton, Cordelia Scaife May, and Stephen Miller, who pushed fringe ideas about “white genocide” and “race suicide” into mainstream political discourse. Through gripping stories and in-depth analysis of major immigration cases, Jones explores the connections between anti-immigration hate groups and the Republican Party. What is laid bare after his examination is not just the intersection between white supremacy and anti-immigration bias but also the lasting impacts this perfect storm of hatred has had on United States law.
Author : Alexander Saxton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520340833
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Indispensable Enemy written by Alexander Saxton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majori
Author : William Brisbane Dick
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Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Dick's Ethiopian Scenes, Variety Sketches, and Stump Speeches written by William Brisbane Dick and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate
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Total Pages : 1102 pages
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Download or read book Reports of Committees written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. T. Remlap
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book General U.S. Grant's Tour Around the World, Embracing His Speeches, Receptions, and Description of His Travels with a Biographical Sketch of His Life written by L. T. Remlap and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paisley Rekdal
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619322773
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book West written by Paisley Rekdal and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms and documents, West: A Translation explores what unites and divides America, drawing a powerful, necessary connection between the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943). In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation—an unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful, necessary connection between the railroad’s completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943). Carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station, where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained during the Chinese Exclusion Act, is a poem elegizing a detainee who committed suicide. As West translates this anonymous Chinese elegy character by character, what’s left is a haunting narrative distilled through the history and lens of transcontinental railroad workers, and a sweeping exploration of the railroad’s cultural impact on America. Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms and documents, West explores what unites and divides America, and how our ideas about American history creep forward, even as the nation itself constantly threatens to spiral back. West is accompanied by a website (www.westtrain.org) which features video poems and encourages self-exploration of the transcontinental railroad’s history through an interactive, non-linear structure. Pairing this urgent book and innovative website, Rekdal masterfully challenges how histories themselves get written and disseminated. The result is a tour de force of resistance and resilience.
Author : George Henry Tinkham
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Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book California Men and Events written by George Henry Tinkham and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing more terrifying than fighting for your life is fighting for someone else's. Bodyguard and ex-Special Forces soldier Charlie Fox would do anything to take her mind off her partner; shot, left for dead and now lying in a coma. So concentrating on a new assignment seems like the perfect way to escape the pain, and her own empty apartment. The job: to protect the naive daughter of an investment banker from a gang of kidnappers who prey on the children of the wealthy Long Island set.--From front book jacket flap.
Author : D. Michael Bottoms
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806188863
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book An Aristocracy of Color written by D. Michael Bottoms and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants. As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed. Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society. Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage. These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.
Author : Jerry Prout
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091973
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Coxey’s Crusade for Jobs written by Jerry Prout and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused millions of Americans to be without work at the time, the word unemployment was rarely used and generally misunderstood. In an era that worshipped the self-reliant individual who triumphed in a laissez-faire market, the out-of-work "tramp" was disparaged as weak or flawed, and undeserving of assistance. Private charities were unable to meet the needs of the jobless, and only a few communities experimented with public works programs. Despite these limitations, Coxey conceived a plan to put millions back to work building a nationwide system of roads and drew attention to his idea with the march to Washington. In Coxey's Crusade for Jobs, Jerry Prout recounts Coxey's story and adds depth and context by focusing on the reporters who were embedded in the march. Their fascinating depictions of life on the road occupied the headlines and front pages of America's newspapers for more than a month, turning the spectacle into a serialized drama. These accounts humanized the idea of unemployment and helped Americans realize that in a new industrial economy, unemployment was not going away and the unemployed deserved attention. This unique study will appeal to scholars and students interested in the Gilded Age and US and labor history.
Author : Gordon Chang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609251
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Chinese and the Iron Road written by Gordon Chang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examining the Chinese worker experience during the construction of America’s Transcontinental Railroad. The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America’s entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. This landmark volume explores the experiences of Chinese railroad workers and their place in cultural memory. The Chinese and the Iron Road illuminates more fully than ever before the interconnected economies of China and the US, how immigration across the Pacific changed both nations, the dynamics of the racism the workers encountered, the conditions under which they labored, and their role in shaping both the history of the railroad and the development of the American West. Praise for The Chinese and the Iron Road “This timely and essential volume preserves the humanity of the often-ignored and forgotten immigrant worker, while also uncovering just how important Chinese American railroad workers were in the making of America and its place in the world.” —Erika Lee, author of The Making of Asian America “Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s meticulously researched and beautifully written book fills [a] critical gap in our nation’s history. The Chinese and the Iron Road brings to life the stories of workers who defied incredible odds and gave their lives to unite these states into a nation.” —David Henry Hwang, Tony Award–winning playwright of The Dance and the Railroad and M. Butterfly “Destined to become the go-to resource about Chinese railroad workers in the American West.” —Madeline Hsu, author of The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority “Deeply researched and richly detailed, The Chinese and the Iron Road brings to life the Chinese immigrants whose work was essential to the railroad’s construction.” —Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History
Author : Harrison Fillmore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146715394X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Godfathers of Chicago’s Chinatown written by Harrison Fillmore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in a town notorious for gangsters like Al Capone, much of Chicago's lawless lore has remained uncharted. Chicago's Chinatown, in particular, was home to a vast criminal enterprise, strictly bound by old-country rituals, rules and traditions. Few kno
Author : Will Carleton
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Private Library of the Well Known American Poet, Will Carleton, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ... written by Will Carleton and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
