Race and Restriction

This article explores the role that the north‐western states of Washington and Oregon played in the anti‐Chinese and anti‐Japanese movements of the Progressive Era. In extending the investigation to include the agitation led by the Knights of Labor during the 1880s and the final exclusion of the Japanese in 1924, it will demonstrate that, although the methods employed by the two exclusionist movements may have varied, the sentiments were virtually interchangeable – a fact of which the Japanese became increasingly aware. By examining the anti‐Chinese violence of the mid‐1880s, and contrasting it with the relative quiet of the next decade, this study questions the view that such responses were purely based on the pressures of the labour market. It sets out to challenge the assumption that Oregon and Washington were simply adjuncts to California and that their pressures for restriction were little more than the result of the opportunistic demagoguery of a few local politicians

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