This response has three parts (you must read your American Empire chapter first to complete this essay)(19) : https://www.americanyawp.com/reader.html
1. Watch this brief video on the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K88pWCimZg
2. Read both the James Phelan document and the Chinese Immigrants Confront Anti-Chinese Prejudice: http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/19-american-empire/james-d-phelan-why-the-chinese-should-be-excluded-1901/
Chinese Immigrants Confront Anti-Chinese Prejudice (1885, 1903)
3. Given these two readings, your chapter reading, and the video, compose an essay in which you discuss in what ways to questions of immigration tie into questions around imperialism? How are the two subjects related? And why were the Chinese the first ethnic group to be prohibited from immigrating to the United States while at the same time the US was interested in access to Chinese markets?