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Chinese -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century.
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
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Chinese -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chinese Americans -- History -- 19th century.
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
MARC Display
The
Chinese
Exclusion
Act
[videorecording (DVD)].
PBS Distribution, 2018.
Call #:
DVD 305.895073 C539 Doc
Subjects
Chinese
-- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chinese
Americans -- History -- 19th century.
Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Series
American
experience
(PBS Distribution)
PBS DVD video.
ISBN:
9781531704889
1531704883
Alternate title:
American
experience
.
Chinese
Exclusion
Act
[videorecording (DVD)]
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)].
Description:
1 videodisc (160 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital Surround sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2017 and originally broadcast on television by PBS as a special presentation of the television program
American
Experience
in 2018.
Bonus video: Symbolism of the
Chinese
Dragon ; George Frisbie Hoar ; Charles Sing ; 2012 Congressional Acknowledgment of the
Chinese
Exclusion
Act
.
Home use only.
English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Production:
A co-production of Steeplechase Films and the Center for Asian
American
Media for PBS ; in association with the New York Historical Society ; directed by Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu ; story by Ric Burns and Robin Espinola & Li-Shin Yu ; telescript by Ric Burns ; produced by Li-Shin Yu, Robin Espinola, and Ric Burns.
Performers:
Hoon Lee, narrator and featuring the voices of Russel Wong, Fenton Lee, Yuet-Fung Ho and Josh Hamilton.
Summary:
"On May 6th, 1882 -- on the eve of the greatest wave of immigration in
American
history -- President Chester A. Arthur signed into law a unique piece of federal legislation. Called the
Chinese
Exclusion
Act
, it singled out as never before a specific race and nationality for
exclusion
-- making it illegal for
Chinese
workers to come to America -- and for
Chinese
nationals already here ever to become citizens of the United States. A deeply
American
story - about immigration and national identity, civil rights and human justice; about how we define who can be an
American
, and what being an
American
means - the film examines the economic, cultural, social, legal, racial and political dimensions of the law; the forces and events that gave rise to it; and the effect it had, and continues to have, on
American
culture and identity. The
Chinese
Exclusion
Act
, explores in riveting detail this little known, yet deeply resonant and revealing episode in
American
history - one that sheds enormous light on key aspects of the history of
American
civil liberties, immigration, and culture -- during one of the most formative periods of U.S. history."--Container.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Burns, Ric.
Yu, Li-Shin.
Lee, Hoon, 1973-
Wong, Russell, 1963-
Lee, Fenton.
Ho, Yuet-Fung.
Hamilton, Josh.
Steeplechase Films Inc.
Center for Asian
American
Media.
New-York Historical Society.
PBS Distribution (Firm)
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