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Reconstruction and Racial Nativism: Chinese Immigrants and the Debates on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments and Civil Rights Laws 重建与种族本土主义:中国移民与关于第十三、十四、十五修正案和民权法的辩论

Asian American Law Journal Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38N292

J. Torok

引用次数: 20

In Brief: Linda Bosniak's The Citizen and the Alien 简而言之:琳达·波什尼亚克的《公民与外星人》

Asian American Law Journal Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38SG5B

Chhunny Chhean, Chia-Chi Li

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Power, Merit, and the Imitations of the Black and White Binary in the Affirmative Action Debate: The Case of Asian Americans at Whitney High School 平权法案辩论中黑人和白人二元对立的权力、优点和模仿:惠特尼高中亚裔美国人的案例

Asian American Law Journal Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z386G5G

Deana K. Chuang

引用次数: 0

Mendez v. Westminister: Asian-Latino Coalition Triumphant Mendez诉Westminister:亚裔拉丁裔联盟胜利

Asian American Law Journal Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z38957X

Toni Robinson, G. Robinson

引用次数: 4

Speech: The Japanese American Incarceration Revisited: 1941-2010 演讲:重新审视日裔美国人的监禁:1941-2010

Asian American Law Journal Pub Date : 1900-01-01 DOI: 10.15779/Z386871

R. Daniels