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Chinatown and the Exclusion years
1882
Mott Street, Manhattan
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Exclusion barred new arrivals and forbade citizenship, so the quarter stayed a community of men, roughly nine to one at the turn of the century. It became the largest Chinese population in the Western hemisphere after the law was repealed in 1943.
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