Charles J Mcclain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1086565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles J Mcclain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclain |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLAIN C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth Century America: The First Phase, 1850-1870
This chapter suggests that standard interpretations of the Chinese experience in America are in great need of revision. A very important corollary of the sojourner theme is the notion that the nineteenth century Chinese community had utterly no interest in American political institutions or desires to adapt itself to them. The chapter focuses on the period 1850-1870 and on the events that eventually led Congress to enact section 16 of the Civil R…
Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America
Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination—in housing, employment, and education—in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobilizing to fight mistreatment. He draws on English- and Chinese-language documents and rarely studied sources to chronicle the ways the Chinese sought redres…
In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America.
Chinese immigration: A comment on cloud and galenson
Of Medicine, Race, and American Law: The Bubonic Plague Outbreak of 1900
In March of 1900 several cases of bubonic plague were discovered in San Francisco's Chinatom. In response the health authorities, at the instance of the Surgeon General of the United States, sought to implement a series of extraordinarily coercive measures aimed at the city's Asian inhabitants. The measures provoked an uproar among the Chinese, and they determined to challenge them in the federal Circuit Court for the Northern District of Califor…
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in 19th-century America: The Unusual Case of Baldwin v. Franks
In its October term 1882, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision which aborted federal efforts to deal with anti-black violence in the states of the old Confederacy. At issue in the case of United States v. Harris was the constitutionality of a federal statute, Section 5519 of the Revised Statutes of the United States of 1874, which made it a crime for private persons to conspire to deprive other individuals of the equal protectio…
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth Century America: The First Phase, 1850-1870
1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.6That statute, according to the Court, had been enacted pursuant to Congress' implied power, under section 2 of the thirteenth amendment, to pass legislation aimed at eliminating the "badges and incidents of slavery." 7One of the statute's purposes, Stewart wrote, was to bar private discrimination in the making of contracts; therefore, the Runyon plaintiffs had a legitimate cause of action under section 1981.8Wha…
Legal Scholars and the Quest for Order in the Law of Civil Wrongs
From Ideology to Utopia: Ernst Fischer in Retrospect
When Ernst Fischer died of a heart attack on 1 August 1972, while on holiday in the Styrian village of Deutsch-Feistritz, there came to a close one of the most interesting careers in the history of postwar European communism. (Le Monde 3 August 1972, in its obituary, ranked Fischer close behind the great Hungarian Marxist, Georg Lukacs, for richness and originality of thought). Originally a Social Democrat, Fischer joined the diminutive Communist…
Of Medicine, Race, and American Law: The Bubonic Plague Outbreak of 1900
In March of 1900 several cases of bubonic plague were discovered in San Francisco's Chinatom. In response the health authorities, at the instance of the Surgeon General of the United States, sought to implement a series of extraordinarily coercive measures aimed at the city's Asian inhabitants. The measures provoked an uproar among the Chinese, and they determined to challenge them in the federal Circuit Court for the Northern District of Califor…
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in 19th-century America: The Unusual Case of Baldwin v. Franks
In its October term 1882, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision which aborted federal efforts to deal with anti-black violence in the states of the old Confederacy. At issue in the case of United States v. Harris was the constitutionality of a federal statute, Section 5519 of the Revised Statutes of the United States of 1874, which made it a crime for private persons to conspire to deprive other individuals of the equal protectio…
Chinese immigration: A comment on cloud and galenson
From Ideology to Utopia: Ernst Fischer in Retrospect
When Ernst Fischer died of a heart attack on 1 August 1972, while on holiday in the Styrian village of Deutsch-Feistritz, there came to a close one of the most interesting careers in the history of postwar European communism. (Le Monde 3 August 1972, in its obituary, ranked Fischer close behind the great Hungarian Marxist, Georg Lukacs, for richness and originality of thought). Originally a Social Democrat, Fischer joined the diminutive Communist…
Legal Scholars and the Quest for Order in the Law of Civil Wrongs
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth Century America: The First Phase, 1850-1870
1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.6That statute, according to the Court, had been enacted pursuant to Congress' implied power, under section 2 of the thirteenth amendment, to pass legislation aimed at eliminating the "badges and incidents of slavery." 7One of the statute's purposes, Stewart wrote, was to bar private discrimination in the making of contracts; therefore, the Runyon plaintiffs had a legitimate cause of action under section 1981.8Wha…
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in 19th-century America: The Unusual Case of Baldwin v. Franks
In its October term 1882, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision which aborted federal efforts to deal with anti-black violence in the states of the old Confederacy. At issue in the case of United States v. Harris was the constitutionality of a federal statute, Section 5519 of the Revised Statutes of the United States of 1874, which made it a crime for private persons to conspire to deprive other individuals of the equal protectio…
Of Medicine, Race, and American Law: The Bubonic Plague Outbreak of 1900
In March of 1900 several cases of bubonic plague were discovered in San Francisco's Chinatom. In response the health authorities, at the instance of the Surgeon General of the United States, sought to implement a series of extraordinarily coercive measures aimed at the city's Asian inhabitants. The measures provoked an uproar among the Chinese, and they determined to challenge them in the federal Circuit Court for the Northern District of Califor…
Chinese immigration: A comment on cloud and galenson
In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America.
In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America
Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination—in housing, employment, and education—in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobilizing to fight mistreatment. He draws on English- and Chinese-language documents and rarely studied sources to chronicle the ways the Chinese sought redres…
Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
The Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth Century America: The First Phase, 1850-1870
This chapter suggests that standard interpretations of the Chinese experience in America are in great need of revision. A very important corollary of the sojourner theme is the notion that the nineteenth century Chinese community had utterly no interest in American political institutions or desires to adapt itself to them. The chapter focuses on the period 1850-1870 and on the events that eventually led Congress to enact section 16 of the Civil R…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Chemistry (2 works)