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Asian American Studies: Discrimination

History of Asian Americans tracing their roots back to pioneering migrants to today's communities.

United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)

Article from Flash Focus: Equal Rights Under Law, 2005 (EBSCO)

Chapter 4: Ozawa and Thind, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (eBook Central)

Exerpt from Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (ebook Central)

Exerpts from Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and Law in the North American West (eBook Central)

Chapter 2, How Race is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts (eBook Central)

Part 2, Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (eBook Central)

South Asian American Digital Archive (Website)

Article from the American Journal of International Law: United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (JSTOR)

Alien Land Laws of 1913 and 1920

Japanese Immigration to the United States (GVRL)

The House on Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream (eBook Central)

Chapter 2: Jap Crow, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 (eBook Central)

Chapter 4: Economic Partner, Exotic Other, The Pacific Rim, the Great West, and California at the Panama-Pacific Exposition (eBopk Central)

Cheong Ah Moy v United States (1885)

Exerpt from State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth Century Marriage Controveries (eBook Central)

Exerpts from Elusive Citizenship: Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights (eBook Central)

Exerpts from Asian American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic (eBook Central)

Cheong Ah Moy v. United States (Website - Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute)

People v Hall (1850s)

Exerpt from Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (eBook Central)

Watsonville Riots (1930)

Exerpt from Gender, Imperialism, and Global Exchanges (eBook Central)

Exerpt from California: A History (eBook Central)

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