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Irish immigrants engage in anti-Chinese violence in California.

Date: 1880s

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Irish immigrants, newly welcomed into white identity alongside their generations-old oppressors, the British, engage in engage in fighting Chinese immigrants to get them to leave their jobs and homes in California. This intense Irish anti-Chinese violence is one of the waves that leads to the Chinese Exclusion Act.