AMST 298 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Burlingame Treaty, The Heathen Chinee, Magnuson Act

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMST 298
• Professor: Terry Parks

Document Summary

Coolie labor (early to mid 19th century) Ca gold rush sent hordes of chinese to u. s (1848) Race-stratified labor market-only certain jobs that chinese could take. Recognized china"s right of eminent domain over all of its territory; 1790 naturalization act prohibited chinese from becoming citizens. Chinese problem as noted by dennis kearney. Slave/indentured labor gives way to free labor. Class exploitation gives way to labor unrest. Chinese= indispensable enemy -needed chinese to build tuff but had to paint them as the enemy. Irish working class and chinese worked together on railroads. 1877 workingmen"s party led by dennis kearney. Miscegenation-from the latin groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation. because of the term"s historical use in contexts that typically implied disapproval, more unambiguously neutral terms such as . Chinese immigrant seen as hypersexual/asexual opium addict. White women-reproductive morality of the u. s nation.