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Documents relating to the 1850 and 1852 California Foreign Miners tax laws.

Caption: Seventy Millions of People Are Starving in the Northern Provinces of China. All Who Can Do So are Making Preparations to Come to the United States. Look Out for the Grasshoppers, Uncle Sam!
Chinese people are depicted as locusts.

Comprised of eight drawings and eight stanzas of poem -- "War on the Heathen Chinee" depicting Chinese being ousted from manufacturing labor.
Relevant poem stanza: "And the war on the Heathen Chinee / Is as hot now, as hot well can be; / They say…

Uncle Sam at head of table; to his right is a Chinese man eating a rat.

Kavita Daswani discusses her book, “The Village Bride of Beverly Hills.” She begins by describing her protagonist, Priya, who is a newly married Hindu bride who is faced with very traditional in-laws, a husband who is controlled by his mother, and…

This image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the U.S. during the late 19th century, particularly around the time of the Chinese…