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California Historical Society, Kevin Starr, and Richard J. Orsi, Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (University of California Press, 2000)

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Martin Gold, Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History. Alexandria: TheCapital.Net, 2012

Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Princeton University Press, 2020)

Ian Haney-López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (New York: University Press, 2006)

Kelly Lytle Hernandez, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2017)

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Abraham Hoffman, Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression: Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939 (University of Arizona Press, 1974)

Charles Jaret, “Troubled by Newcomers: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Action during Two Eras of Mass Immigration to the United States,” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 18, No. 3 (1999): 9–39

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Maddalena Marinari, Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965 (University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

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Michael J. Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, (Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2022)

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Elliott Young, Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (Oxford University Press, 2021)