http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/angel/exclude.htm
In discussing issues of immigration and the immigrant experience, we must keep documents such as this one in mind. Read this over if you have a chance and think about how contemporary immigration issues are dealt with and formulated. How is the Chinese immigrant objectified in this act? What happens when we view individuals as economic objects? How does “law” (such as this one) serve to justify a human rights abuse (such as Angel Island)? Why are immigration issues in this country of particular interest to the rest of the international community?
The following is a political cartoon printed in late 19th C. which deals with the Chinese Exclusion Act:
The Modernist Circle 