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The Chinese Exclusion Act is a 2017 documentary film about the United States Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Produced by PBS as a "special presentation" for the American Experience documentary program, it explores how the Act's 61-year-long prohibition of Chinese immigrants to the United States had an effect on Chinese communities already living ...
May 29, 2018 · The Chinese Exclusion Act. A Special Presentation of American Experience From the Collection: The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Experience. Examine...
Mar 19, 2017 · The Chinese Exclusion Act: Directed by Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu. With Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei. The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
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A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abroad and those already in the country.
May 28, 2018 · “The Chinese Exclusion Act,” on PBS, explains how and why America decided that the Chinese could never be Americans.
Synopsis. A sweeping chronicle of the entire exclusion era - the latter part of the 1800s, when anti-Chinese agitation led to federal laws targeting Chinese abroad and those already in the country.
