华裔历史学家CNN发文:为什么穆斯林是新时期的中国人
不多说,看链接。
Why Trump is making Muslims the new Chinese
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/opinions/muslims-are-new-chinese-ngai-opinion/index.html
The Chinese have the dubious distinction of being the only group to be
excluded from the United States explicitly by name.
Sixty years of Chinese Exclusion, which lasted from 1882 to 1943, imposed
myriad harms on Chinese people. Chinese laborers could not immigrate and no
Chinese could obtain naturalized citizenship. Chinese who sought entry into
the United States, such as citizens and merchants exempted from the
exclusion laws, faced extreme interrogation upon arrival, mostly aimed at
detecting fraudulent identity claims. Americans now consider Chinese
Exclusion to be a blight on the nation's history and believe that we are --
or should be -- past such blatant racial discrimination.
Mae Ngai teaches history at Columbia University and is the author of "Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America." The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely hers