The Chinese must go: violence, exclusion, and the making of the alien in America

Introduction: The violence of exclusion

Part I. Restriction. The Chinese question ; Experiments in restriction

Part II. Violence. The banished ; The people ; The loyal

Part III. Exclusion. The exclusion consensus ; Afterlives under exclusion

Epilogue: The modern American alien

Appendix A. Sites of anti-Chinese expulsions and attempted expulsions, 1885-1887

Appendix B. Chinese immigration to the United States, 1850-1904.