Abstract
When the Transcontinental Railroad is completed, Chinese laborers settle in cities like San Francisco to work in such industries as shoe- or cigar-making. This causes such deep resentment among white laborers that Chinese workers are relegated to service jobs--cleaning, laundry, and food preparation--jobs that do not generally attract Euro-American workers. Their success in these fields is met with discriminatory rules and regulations often waived for other groups, like the ordinance that requires laundries to be built of brick. It is ironic that European immigrants, working class people who are also seeking refuge in the United States, use racial identity as a way to marginalize and exclude people of color.
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Ethnicity and Race Relations, American History, American Studies, Unfinished Nation, The
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English
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