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Chinua Achebe, c. 1960, with two editions of his first novel, Things Fall Apart.

Chinese miners work along streams with cradles, water buckets, and picks.

Track maintenance workers, called "gandy dancers" in railroad slang, patrol the Oregon Pacific Railroad in a hand

Contrived view of Chinatown showing streets crowded with men and lined with businesses; at left and right streams of immigrants make their way from Pacific Mail Steamship Company and Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. Ships stretch into distance…

First page of the US Chinese Exclusion Act

A group of Chinese miners in California.

An image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Children and adults protest poor housing conditions and prices down the streets of New York City.