Mae Ngai 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
8/23/2021
America Once was Eager for Chinese Immigration. Mae Ngai's Book Explains What Happened
The first wave of the California Gold Rush was "a nettlesome experiment in multiracial democracy that had little precedent in the country's history," but resulted in the development of institutionalized anti-Asian nativism as a political force.
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