Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming by Ava Chin

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming

Ava Chin

503 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant first confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin t...

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