HISTORY 142A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Geary Act, United States V. Wong Kim Ark
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Afraid of chinese customs taking over and changing american ones. They"re going to take some of the profits. There"s a lot of chinese, employers can choose. Often would work in large groups and often be organized by a labor employer. Hired as strike breakers a lot of the time. Seen as gang labor coming in to replace another group. Blames them for causing economic depressions because they keep taking jobs. Couldn"t be american citizens because they were untrustworthy and they lacked the brain power. They didn"t have the capacity to do it. This is the more general term for what drove anti-chinese sentiment at the time. Seen as criminals/immoral >shouldn"t be incorporated into the political body. Yes we"ll give you equality but we still want "separate but equal" Focuses on all the illegal ways that they are immigrating to the us. If chinese born in america are naturalized citizens.
