The Chinese Exclusion/Geary acts weren't even repealed until the 1940s, when they "generously" allowed ~100 to immigrate per year. It prevented naturalization o

The Chinese Exclusion/Geary acts weren't even repealed until the 1940s, when they "generously" allowed ~100 to immigrate per year. It prevented naturalization on grounds of ethnicity, prevented extant residents from coming back if they left, and restricted land ownership. Then there was that whole Japanese internment camp and mass land seizure thing too. (Check out how much California farm land is worth now: it was a generational theft on a massive scale.) The earlier half of the 20th century was an awful time to be asian in America, and the systematic suppression of generational wealth for purely racial reasons is not an effect that just goes away overnight.