عنوان

"They are Vile and Polluted in a Filthy Degree":

Number

TLpq2407627987

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

"They are Vile and Polluted in a Filthy Degree":

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Tresch, Erin

Title Proper by Another Author

An Analysis of Health and Disease Rhetoric During the Anti-Chinese Movement, 1849-1900

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Oertel, Kristen

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Tulsa

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

68

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Body granting the degree

The University of Tulsa

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to prohibit immigration of Chinese laborers. This act was the first law that banned all members of a specific ethnic or racial group from immigrating to the country. The historiography of this Act has heavily emphasized the labor movement as the focus of the anti-Chinese movement. Through analysis of newspapers, academic articles, and the Congressional Records of 1882, the resulting research found that health and disease discourse of Chinese immigrants was a strong factor in the anti-Chinese movement. This discourse also factored into Chinese attempts at legal action after the Act was passed, when their rights were violated regarding their control over their own health. This project shows that this discourse of Chinese foreign disease shaped the United States legally and socially for more than half a century. In many ways, it continues to shape the country today, as fears of foreign diseases crossing the border from Central and South America permeated public discourse in the 2010s.

American history

Anti-Chinese movement

Chinese exclusion act

Health and disease rhetoric

Oertel, Kristen

Tresch, Erin

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[Thesis]

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