HISTORY / Latin America / Central America

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This article examines racial and xenophobic violence against Chinese immigrants in the Americas between 1871 and 1919, focusing on the cases of California, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru. Its aim is to identify the common features of these episodes of aggression—manifested in their most extreme form as massacres—in order to address the central question: how was violence against the Chinese articulated in different nation…

Reference · Wikidata

scholarly article published in Latin American Anthropology Review, vol. 3, no. 1 (1991) (DOI: 10.1525/JLAT.1991.3.1.21.2)