The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act - Robert Chang
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In 1882, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal law that restricted immigration based explicitly on nationality. In practice, the Act banned entry to all ethnically Chinese immigrants besides diplomats, and prohibited existing immigrants from obtaining citizenship. Robert Chang details the lasting impact the Act had on immigrant rights and freedoms.
Why might it matter that the U.S. Supreme Court, and as a corollary the federal appellate and trial courts, defers generally to the policies and laws that emerge from the executive and legislature?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Robert Chang
- Director Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao
- Narrator Jack Cutmore-Scott
- Storyboard Artist Mohammad Babakoohi
- Animator Mohammad Babakoohi, Elahe Baloochi
- Compositor Poorya Goodarzi
- Art Director Mohammad Babakoohi, Yijia Cao
- Sound Designer Mohammad Babakoohi
- Music Jian Nanyin
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Editorial Producer Dan Kwartler
- Production Coordinator Abdallah Ewis
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
