China's Gold Rush Migrants
The LRB Podcast
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Is There a Racism in the White Population?
In california, in australia, white workers and chinese workers were on relatively equal footing. Chinese workers were parly second class citizens, but they were free second class citizens. And then there's a specific moment, starting the seventies and certainly the 18 eighties, where this coole mith really settles in. White populations, white voters, are mobilizing the sentiment ore,. typically politicians, or even the craft skilled workers, who don't feel directly threatened.
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