POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: White Supremacy, Jim Crow Laws
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Suchang chan argued that the superior group treated asians in a hostile way. Similar to all the other colored race, asians were deemed as the inferior race" (45). In addition, everyone who was nonwhite people were viewed with a negative opinion. Hostility against asian immigrants may be divided into seven categories: prejudice, economic discrimination, political disenfranchisement, physical violence, immigration exclusion, social, segregation, and incarceration (45). Asian immigrants were harassed due to their appearances. Asians were called ragheads and an ordinance was passed in 1870 to cut off the ques worn by. In 1850, a foreign miners" tax was passed aimed mainly toward the. The americans noticed that the chinese had no protection; as a result, they took advantage of them by taxing the chinese multiply times. Another law that limited asians rights were the alien land law passed in california in 1913, which prevented them from leasing or buying land.
