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Asian Americans and U.S. Law Casebook

Of Mongrels and Men (OPTIONAL READING ONLY)

The Shared Ideology of Anti-Miscegenation Law, Chinese Exclusion, and Contemporary American Neo-Nativism

OPTIONAL READING: Of Mongrels and Men: The Shared Ideology of Anti-Miscegenation Law, Chinese Exclusion, and Contemporary American Neo-Nativism

 

Note: the title is derived from this reprehensible quote:

“We want no more mixture of races. . . . No strong nation was ever born of mongrel 
races of men.” 

—U.S. Senator La Fayette Grover (addressing the “Chinese Problem”), June 30, 1872