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1902

Legislation / immigrationSupplement

Chinese exclusion made permanent

United States; Chinese migrants

Congress removed the temporary character of exclusion, entrenching a racial restriction within immigration law.

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Context / qualification

Repeal in 1943 still left a very small quota.

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Jim Crow, exclusion, and imperial expansion

Segregation, racial violence, immigration exclusion, and forced assimilation shaped everyday life and national policy.

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