Racial And Ethnic Tensions In California

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During this time in California racial and ethnic tensions have continued to increase significantly throughout the years. Furthermore, the Chinese population has escalated as they started to arrive during “the season of dashed hopes” taking up placer mining claims that other Anglo men abandoned. The Chinese were very successful in the gold fields abandoned by other Anglo men, and this created resentment between the two races. Anglo men have tried to undermine the Chinese in many ways to make up for the insecurity they felt about their own failures in the mines. This included feminizing the new men. J.D Borthwick published his account of the 1852-53 tour of the diggings and claimed that these Chinese men lacked the “force” and “vigor” of the

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