Anti-Chinese violence far exceeded any anti-European nativism

Evidence

No variety of anti-European sentiment has ever approached the violent extremes to which anti-Chinese agitation went in the 1870’s and 1880’s. Lynchings, boycotts, and mass expulsions still harassed the Chinese after the federal government yielded to the clamor for their exclusion in 1882. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Bears on the reader’s question of whether racialization is a distinct, more violent stage of the manufactured-enemy category than ethnic prejudice. — connects to: European hostility toward Muslims exceeds even hostility toward other immigrants — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 37; Anti-Japanese nativism drew strength from a perceived international threat absent in anti-Chinese feeling. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 2306; Anti-Chinese violence killed hundreds and expelled thousands from western homes — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2966

Broader Connections

• Anti-Japanese nativism drew strength from a perceived international threat absent in anti-Chinese feeling. #contradicts (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 2306
• European hostility toward Muslims exceeds even hostility toward other immigrants #complicates (0.75) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 37