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A five page paper which considers the Chinese Exclusion Act in terms of the impact which it had on racial issues in nineteenth century America and the gender balance within the immigrant Chinese community of the period. Bibliography lists one source.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLgyory.rtf
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the change in the labour market which came about as a result of abolition. In the days when slavery when was widespread, the control of the labour pool was for
the most part in the hands of the slave traders and plantation owners: after abolition, and with a much higher rate of immigration to the US, there were considerable changes
not only in the ethnic and demographic composition of the labour pool itself, but the way in which labour was organised.
Gyory takes the view that despite earlier research into the topic, the perspective that much of the racism which was engendered during
this period did not arise out of the ideological perspective of white workers, but was the result of deliberate manipulation by politicians who recognised that exclusion policies would create a
greater homogeneity amongst the working population, and give the impression that such policies were protective of the employment rights of white workers, already seen as threatened by the increasing number
of black workers in the labour pool following abolition. In order to understand
the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history of Chinese migration to the US
in the nineteenth century. The immigration of Chinese workers had been encouraged in the mid-nineteenth century, in order to fill gaps in the manual labour pool especially with regard to
the building of railways. The Burlingame Treaty guaranteed their right of immigration, but not naturalisation, and in areas such as California where there was a high percentage of Chinese people,
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