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In the South, many Chinese American men married African American women. For example, the tenth U.S. census of Louisiana alone showed 57% Chinese American men were married to African American women, and 43% to European American women. [4] In 1924, the law barred further entries of Chinese.
By World War II, the Chinese in America who returned to China were shocked by the severe plight of residents there. At the same time, the people in China found those from America to be peculiar. [22] Since China and the United States were allies against the Japanese during World War II, Chinese Americans fared better.
The 2021 U.S. Census also reports that 64.9% of Chinese American men and 61.3% of Chinese American women work in an elite white-collar profession, compared to 57.5% for all Asian Americans, and is a little more than one and a half times above the national average of 42.2%. [113]
Chinese immigration to America in the 19th century is commonly referred to as the first wave of Chinese Americans, and are mainly Cantonese and Taishanese speaking people. About half or more of the Chinese ethnic people in the United States in the 1980s had roots in Taishan, Guangdong, a city in southern China near the major city of Guangzhou ...
Unlike Washington and Oregon however, Chinese residents in Idaho had more freedom in a number of entities. For example, Chinese laborers had access to Idaho's legal courts. They were allowed to file complaints against both Chinese and whites. [14] Chinese children were also integrated into the public schools.
Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans: the first 100 years. University of Washington Press, 1994. ISBN 0295974125, 9780295974125; Liu, Eric, A Chinaman's Chance: One Family’s Journey and the Chinese American Dream. Public Affairs, 2014. ISBN 978-1610391948; Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans Bai Nian Gan Ku : the First Hundred Years.
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was the only law in American history to deny naturalization in or entry into the United States based upon a specific ethnicity or country of birth, though it was not the only law to deny citizenship based on ethnicity or country of birth (as Native- and African-American, among other Non-White American, people had at various times been denied citizenship based upon ...