Author：Najia Aarim-Heriot

Publisher ：Board of Trustees, University of Illinois

Publishing Year ：2003

Call Number ：E184.C5 A113

Introduction ：

This book offers a holistoc look at the roots of American Sinophobia and its historical parallels. The relationship between the “Chinese question” and the “Negro problem” in the nineteenth-century in America is well discussed in this book that it forcefully and convincingly demonstrates that the close link of anti-Chinese sentiment which led up to passage of Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by main-stream white society toward different races during the same period. With the similar negative stereotypes, shirll rhetoric and crippling exclusionary laws, the authror further highlights the striking similarities in the ways the Chinese and African American populations were disenfranchised during the mid-1800s. This book will be of interest to scholars of American History and Race studies.