ESPM 50AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Burlingame Treaty
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Chinese social construction policy and resistance california and us. Do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)e(cid:373)orize ti(cid:373)eli(cid:374)e of poli(cid:272)(cid:455). (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1009)(cid:1006): foreig(cid:374) mi(cid:374)er"s ta(cid:454) (cid:894)(cid:373)ea(cid:374)t to (cid:271)e agai(cid:374)st chi(cid:374)ese(cid:895) 1854: people vs. hall (chinese took gold that whites were gonna get. Resources starting to decline as people come to get gold. Gold at first is easy to get, later hard to get. Resource play a role in social construction, relative scarcity led to anti-chinese sentiment. Policy change: whites bar testimony of mongolians which led to violence against chinese. 1882: chinese exclusion act led to merchants chinese who have relating who is citizen. Cat on a roof anxious of chinese, ready to jump. Keep labor, threatening to punish chinese pacific chivalry. Some woman are used as a slave because only 3 % of them came. Brad hart wrote a satire about people"s per(cid:272)eptio(cid:374). Bill nye narrator ah sin are characters in the satire.