Charles McClain (ed.)

Japanese Immigrants and American Law

The Alien Land Laws and Other Issues
Herausgeber: McClain, Charles

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Produktbeschreibung

Since many Japanese immigrants focused on agriculture, California and other western states sought to discourage their presense by passing laws making it impossible for Japanese to own agricultural land and enacted other discriminatory as well. The articles in this volume explore the background and ramifications of the so-called Alien Land laws.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 446
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9780815318507
• ISBN-10: 0815318502
• Artikelnr.: 22314413

Autorenporträt

Charles McClain

Inhaltsangabe

The Rise of Anti-Japanese Agitation
Some Legal Aspects of the Japanese Question
The Development of the Anti-Japanese Agitation in the United States
The Development of Anti-Japanese Agitation in the United States I
The California-Japanese Question
The Japanese Exclusion Bill of 1924
The Alien Land Laws
California
Japan
and the Alien Land Legislation of 1913
Prejudice Goes to Court: The Japanese and the Supreme Court in the 1920s
"The Most Thankless Task": Bryan and the California
Alien Land Legislation
Constitutional Law: Equal Protection of the Laws: Presumption of Intent to Evade Escheat in California
The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment
Landless by Law: Japanese Immigrants in California Agriculture to 1941
Japanese Immigrant Response to the 1920 California Alien Land Law
The Japanese Problem in Oregon
Prelude to Prejudice: Hiram Johnson
Woodrow Wilson
and the California Alien Land Law Controversy of 1913
The Anti-Japanese Land Laws of California and Ten Other States
European Immigrant and Oriental Alien: Acceptance and Rejection by the California Legislature of 1913
Alien Land Cases in United States Supreme Court
Civil Rights and Anti-Japanese Discrimination
Politics
Education
and Language Policy: The Case of Japanese Language Schools in Hawaii
The Early Japanese Immigrant Quest for Citizenship;The Background of the 1922 Ozawa Case
1947-48 Term of the Supreme Court: The Alien's Right to Work