This is a work in progress. I might be doing a reading/study group to learn about the anti-Chinese Movement of the 1800s.
I’m interested in this topic because it shows signs of a “horseshoe theory” where left and right merge; however, as noted in online debates, the horseshoe theory is false, because it ignores the position of workers of color, who end up scapegoated and oppressed, and their labor used to prop up some of the white workers.
At this time, I’m reading the following:
Sandemeyer, Elmer, The Anti-Chinese Movement (also Archive)
Yu, Connie Yung, Review of The Indispensable Enemy by Saxton
Carlsson, Chris, The Workingmen’s Party & The Denis Kearney Agitation
Lew-Williams, Beth, The Chinese Must Go (Audiobook)
Ngai, Mae, The Chinese Question (Audiobook)
Baldwin, S.L., Must the Chinese Go?
Planning to read:
Saxton
Images and Video
PBS Learning Media, The Chinese Exclusion Act (Video)
