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Explore the hostile and violent laws targeting Californios, Chinese, and Japanese post-Gold Rush in California. From segregation to economic hardships, discover the discriminatory practices faced by ethnic communities in the late 19th century. Learn about the challenges, riots, and segregated schools that shaped their experiences in this tumultuous period of American history.
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CHAPTER 23 DISCRIMINATION AND ACCOMODATION
ETHNICITY, RACE • Intriguing, fluid • Californios
Post-rush • “Colored” • Hostile, violent
LAWS • Taxes • Mexicans, Chinese • 1858: “colored” could not attend schools • 1870: segregated schools
CHINESE • Gum Saan • Passage: Credit-ticket system • People v. Hall (1854) • Legally “Indians” • 1885: segregation mongoloid, Chinese
EXCLUSION • 1882: Chinese • 1902: permanent
DEPRESSION • 1892-1897 • Anti-Chinese riots
COMMUNITIES • Stores, restaurants • Tongs • 1852: Kwang-tek-tong • Leisure
JAPANESE • 1885 • Economic hardships • Agriculture • Discrim.: