At America's gates: Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943

Introduction

PART I: CLOSING THE GATES: The Chinese are coming: how can we stop them? : Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping

The keepers of the gate: U.S. immigration officials and Chinese exclusion

PART II: AT AMERICA'S GATES: Exclusion Acts: Race, class, gender, and citizenship in the enforcement of the exclusion laws

One hundred kinds of oppressive laws: the Chinese response to American exclusion

PART III: CRACKS IN THE GATE: Enforcing the borders: Chinese exclusion along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders

The crooked path: Chinese illegal immigration and its consequences

PART IV: THE CONSEQUENCES AND LEGACIES OF EXCLUSION: In the shadow of exclusion: The impact of exclusion on the Chinese in America

EPILOGUE: Echoes of exclusion in the late Twentieth Century

AFTERWORD: Following September 11, 2001.