(Source: University of New Mexico Press)
The University
of New Mexico Press has published a new book on the legal history of 19th
century Chinese settlers in the American West.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Some half
million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth
century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining,
railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation,
the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination and widespread
violence. This legal history of the Chinese experience in the American West,
based on the author’s lifetime of research in legal sources all over the
West—from California to Montana to New Mexico—serves as a basic account of the
legal treatment of Chinese immigrants in the West.
The first two
essays deal with anti-Chinese racial violence and judicial discrimination. The
remainder of the book examines legal precedents and judicial doctrines derived
from Chinese cases in specific western states. The Chinese, Wunder shows, used
the American legal system to protect their rights and test a variety of legal
doctrines, making vital contributions to the legal history of the American
West.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John R. Wunder is a professor emeritus of
history at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A widely published author and
editor, his recent works include Reconfigurations of Native North America: An
Anthology of New Perspectives and Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience. He
lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword. No
Equal Justice for Chinese
Liping Zhu
Preface. A
Personal Commentary
Acknowledgments
Reception
Chapter One.
Anti-Chinese Violence in the American West, 1850–1910
Chapter Two.
Chinese in Trouble: Criminal Law and Race on the Trans-Mississippi West
Frontier
California
Chapter Three.
People v. Hall (Cal, 1854) Revisited
Chapter Four.
The Chinese and California: A Torturous Legal Relationship
Chapter Five.
Chinese Laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment
Pacific
Northwest
Chapter Six. The
Chinese and the Courts in the Pacific Northwest: Justice Denied?
Chapter Seven.
The Courts and the Chinese in Frontier Idaho
Chapter Eight.
Law and Chinese in Frontier Montana
Southwest
Chapter Nine.
Law and the Chinese on the Southwest Frontier, 1850s–1902
Chapter Ten.
Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun: A Turning Point in Chinese Legal
Relationships in the Trans-Mississippi West
Index
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