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After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations.Many of the early Chinese laborers came from sugar plantations in Cuba and after the transcontinental railroad was completed, California also contributed to the labor supply.
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.
TODAY kids' names: Take a closer look at the names of the TODAY co-hosts' children, examining their inspiration and meaning. All the TODAY hosts' children's names, their meanings and how they ...
The Chinese laborers worked out well and thousands more were recruited until the railroad's completion in 1869. Chinese labor provided the massive workforce needed to build the majority of the Central Pacific's difficult route through the Sierra Nevada mountains and across Nevada. By 1869, the ethnic Chinese population in the US numbered at ...
Bill Gates is settling into his newest title — grandfather. The Microsoft founder, 69, appeared on Today to discuss his new memoir, Source Code: My Beginnings, and was asked whether his two ...
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Lai, Him Mark. "Chinese American Studies: A Historical Survey". Chinese America: History and Perspectives. 1995: 11– 29. Lee, Erika, "Orientalisms in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to Asian American History," Journal of Asian American Studies vol 8#3 (2005) pp 235–256. Notes that 30–40% of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants before ...
The memoir is also a way to let his children — daughters Jennifer, 28, and Phoebe, 22, as well as son Rory, 25 — learn more about their grandparents, Gates says. "I think it kind of completes ...