Yellow-peril fear produced the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1917 bar

Evidence

The concept of ‘‘Oriental’’ solidified in movements hostile toward Asian immigrants. Local agitators eventually succeeded getting in state and federal legislation passed to slow the immigration of Asians and to exclude them from citizenship. This organized fear, cast as a ‘‘yellow peril,’’ resulted in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and culminated in passing of legislation by Congress in 1917 to bar immigration of anyone from the so-called Asiatic Barred Zone. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the China Exclusion Act precedent the reader may know from legal history; parallels the current anti-Muslim panic thesis of this book. — connects to: Chinese exclusion in the 1880s supplied no precedent for European-immligrant restriction — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 996
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 290