The Chinese Exclusion Act

<p>Between 1882 and 1965, a huge percentage of would-be Chinese immigrants were excluded from the United States. This is the story of how the U.S. came to exclude Chinese workers from immigration and Chinese immigrants from citizenship, the multi-generational reverberations of this practice and its extension to nearly all Asians and Pacific Islanders. </p> <p><a href="https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/john-kuo-wei-tchen" target="_blank">Jack Tchen</a> of Rutgers University and <a href="https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/jane-hong" target="_blank">Jane Hong</a> of Occidental College are our guides to the Chinese Exclusion Act.</p>