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The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion Laws In The Nineteenthcentury American West Diana L Ahmad

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Publisher: University of Nevada Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.43 MB

Pages: 208

Author: Diana L. Ahmad

ISBN: 9780874176988, 0874176980

Language: English

Year: 2007

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The Opium Debate And Chinese Exclusion Laws In The Nineteenthcentury American West Diana L Ahmad by Diana L. Ahmad 9780874176988, 0874176980 instant download after payment.

America's current struggle with drug addiction is not the nation's
first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a
major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although
China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small
minority of Chinese immigrants in America were actually involved in the
opium business. It was in Anglo communities that the use of opium soon
spread and this growing use was deemed a threat to the nation's
entrepreneurial spirit and to its growing importance as a world economic
and military power. "The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws"
examines how the spread of opium-smoking fueled racism and created
demands for the removal of the Chinese from American life. This
meticulously researched study of the nineteenth-century drug-abuse
crisis reveals the ways moral crusaders linked their anti-opium rhetoric
to already active demands for Chinese exclusion. Until this time,
anti-Chinese propaganda had been dominated by protests against the
economic and political impact of Chinese workers and the alleged role of
Chinese women as prostitutes. The use of the drug by Anglos added
another reason for demonizing Chinese immigrants. Ahmad describes the
disparities between Anglo-American perceptions of Chinese immigrants and
the somber realities of these people's lives, especially the role that
opium-smoking came to play in the Anglo-American community, mostly among
middle- and upper-class women. The book offers a brilliant analysis of
the evolution of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, plus important
insights into the social history of the nineteenth-century West, the
culture of American Victorianism, and the rhetoric of racism in American
politics.