Monthly Archives: May 2018

The Chinese Exclusion Act, A Special Presentation of American Experience on PBS

Languages, understood as the particular set of speech norms of a particular community, are also a part of the larger culture of the community that speaks them.

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The Chinese Exclusion Act: The 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. 

Watch The Chinese Exclusion Act on PBS, Premieres May 29, 2018, 8:00 PM

A Special Presentation of American Experience

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/chinese-exclusion-act/