This study covers the development of the anti-Japanese movement in California from its inception in the late nineteenth century until its 'victory' in the passage of the immigration act excluding Japanese from entering the United States in 1924. The author, a historian, has chronicled the story of the California exclusionists, groups of men and women active in California politics and society, often divided on many issues and interests but united in their desire to halt forever the coming of Japanese to American shores. The passage of the immigration legislation of 1924 brought to an end the most pressing of their demands and the Japanophobes retired temporarily only to emerge after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941 to demand the evacuation and incarceration of America's Japanese. -- Pacific Affairs

Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. His many works include Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850 (1990), Prisoners without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (1993), and Not Like Us: Immigrants and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (1997).