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112 “young and pretty Irish girl”: New York Sun, February 16, 1874.
112 Story about Charles Sun: Interview with Paul Siu in Douglas Knox’s unpublished paper, “The Chinese American Midwest: Migration and the Negotiation of Ethnicity.”
113 only state in the union: Lucy M. Cohen, Chinese in the Post-Civil War South, p. 2.
113 “little half-breed children”: John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York Before Chinatown, p. 228.
114 Information on the two sons of Yung Wing (Morrison and Bartlet Yung): Provided by Yung Wing’s grandson, Frank Yung, in his correspondence with the author.
114 “pass for what he wants”: Lucy M. Cohen, Chinese in the Post-Civil War South, p. 170.
114 “That made me angry”: Ibid., p. 171.
115 “I have come from a race”: Edith Maud Eaton (pseudonym Sui Sin Far), “Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian,” Independent, January 21, 1909.
115 “Why is my mother’s race despised?”: Ibid.
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116 Information on the depression in the 1870s: Victor G. and Brett de Bary Nee, Longtime Californ‘, pp. 46-47.
117 one Chinese and two whites for every job: Victor Low, The Unimpressible Race, p. 29; Ronald Takaki, Strangers from a Different Shore, p. 105.
118 “In the factories of San Francisco”: John Todd, The Sunset Land (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870), p. 283.
118 History of poem “The Heathen Chinee”: Ronald Takaki, pp. 104-5; Arthur Bonner, Alas! What Brought Thee Hither? The Chinese in New York 1800-1950, pp. 33-34.
119 “In all our knowledge”: Arthur Bonner, pp. 33-34.
119 Cubic Air law: Otis Gibson, The Chinese in America, pp. 361-62; Origins & Destinations, pp. 57-58; San Francisco Board of Supervisors, order no. 939, as cited in Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., “Chink!,” pp. 65-66 (see also pp. 13-14).
119 “like brutes”: Otis Gibson, pp. 361-62.
119 “queue ordinance”: Diane Mei Lin Mark and Ginger Chih, A Place Called Chinese America, p. 33; Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., “Chink!,” p. 14.
120 “sidewalk ordinance”: Diane Mei Lin Mark and Ginger Chih, p. 33.
120 two dollars a quarter: Ibid.; Otis Gibson, p. 282.
120 Congress deliberately withheld the right of the Chinese to naturalize: Roger Daniels, Asian America, p. 43.
121 “the Chinks are shootin’ ”. Stephen Longstreet, All Star Cast: An Anecdotal History of Los Angeles (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977), p. 80.
121 “American blood had been shed”: Stephen Longstreet, p. 80.
121 “Hang them! Hang them!”: Ibid.
121 highly respected Chinese doctor: C. P. Dorland, statement delivered at the Historical Society of Southern California, January 7, 1894, as cited in Cheng-Tsu Wu, ed., “Chink!,” p. 151.
121 “The little fellow was not above twelve years of age”: David Colbert, ed., Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen (New York: Viking, 1998), p. 172.
122 some ten million acres: Sucheng Chan, Asian Americans, p. 31. The number of acres granted ranged from nine to eleven million, depending on how they were counted.
122 “WE WANT NO SLAVES OR ARISTOCRATS”: Roger Daniels, Asian America, p. 38.
123 less than 2 percent of the patients: Otis Gibson, The Chinese in America, p. 364.
123 more than 35 percent: Ibid., p. 364.
123 harbored more Europeans at public expense: Ibid., p. 22.
123 “chasing a phantom”: Ibid., p. 23.
123 Dr. Arthur Stout: John Hoyt Williams, A Great and Shining Road, p. 95. Also, Stuart Creighton Miller, The Unwelcome Immigrant: The American Image of the Chinese, 1785-1882 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969), p. 161. Arthur Stout’s pamphlet, Chinese Immigration and the Physiological Causes of the Decay of the Nation, asserted that syphilis and “mental alienation” were Chinese characteristics.
123 American Medical Association: Stuart Creighton Miller, p. 163.
123 “Even boys eight and ten years old”: Ibid.
123 “Anglo-Saxon Blood”: Ibid., pp. 164, 237. Original citation: Mary Santelle, “The Foul Contagious Disease. A Phase of the Chinese Question. How the Chinese Women Are