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Of Tech Moguls and Gold Miners: A Capitalist History

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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The Whiteness Cartel in California

Whiteness was really worth something here in California. But only if you could control who had access to it. And so you see the Chinese Exclusion Act coming out of California at the end of the 19th century. You have the Alien Land Act, where Asian people are forbidden from owning land. Then you have also these Supreme Court cases arising from formal challenges to the racial hierarchy in California.

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