The Politics of Prejudice
The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion
$18.95, £11.50 paperback
978-0-520-21950-2
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181 pages,
March 1999, Available worldwide
Categories: History; California & the West; United States History; Immigration & Emigration
March 1999, Available worldwide
Categories: History; California & the West; United States History; Immigration & Emigration
"The author shows that racism was not confined to the Far West or the South, but was national in scope . . . Daniels has maintained objectivity while examining a point of view he rejects. He has avoided the historian's occupational disease of burying too few ideas under too many pages of exposition . . . and has treated an important and neglected subject in a stimulating and thought-provoking manner."—Journal of Southern History
"A study that is written with impartiality, wit and distinction."—Journal of American History
"We are indebted to the author for a detailed picture of the congeries of events, personages, and groups that comprised the anti-Japanese movement, an original portrait that should be of great empirical use to American historians as well as to social scientists interested in social movements."—Social Research
"This study covers the development of the anti-Japanese movement in California from its inception in the late nineteenth century until its 'victory' in the passage of the immigration act excluding Japanese from entering the United States in 1924. The author, a historian, has chronicled the story of the California exclusionists, groups of men and women active in California politics and society, often divided on many issues and interests but united in their desire to halt forever the coming of Japanese to American shores. The passage of the immigration legislation of 1924 brought to an end the most pressing of their demands and the Japanophobes retired temporarily only to emerge after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 to demand the evacuation and incarceration of America's Japanese."—Pacific Affairs
"A study that is written with impartiality, wit and distinction."—Journal of American History
"We are indebted to the author for a detailed picture of the congeries of events, personages, and groups that comprised the anti-Japanese movement, an original portrait that should be of great empirical use to American historians as well as to social scientists interested in social movements."—Social Research
"This study covers the development of the anti-Japanese movement in California from its inception in the late nineteenth century until its 'victory' in the passage of the immigration act excluding Japanese from entering the United States in 1924. The author, a historian, has chronicled the story of the California exclusionists, groups of men and women active in California politics and society, often divided on many issues and interests but united in their desire to halt forever the coming of Japanese to American shores. The passage of the immigration legislation of 1924 brought to an end the most pressing of their demands and the Japanophobes retired temporarily only to emerge after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 to demand the evacuation and incarceration of America's Japanese."—Pacific Affairs
"The years have failed to dull the sheen of this slender volume. Its thick subject matters—regionalism, racial politics, democracy—have taken on different casts over the life of the book, yet they retain their relevance and timeliness."—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Margins and Mainstreams
"The insights offered by Roger Daniels almost four decades ago remain trenchant and incisive."—Sucheng Chan, author of This Bittersweet Soil
"The insights offered by Roger Daniels almost four decades ago remain trenchant and incisive."—Sucheng Chan, author of This Bittersweet Soil
This classic study offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, extending from the late nineteenth century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the United States. The Politics of Prejudice details the political climate that helped to set the stage for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II and reveals the racism present among middle-class American progressives, labor leaders, and other presumably liberal groups.