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Man, the history of marriage laws in California is deeply bizarre.

(So is trying to sort out all the crazy racist laws of the late 1800s -- gaaaah!)

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[gina-r-snape.livejournal.com]

Extraordinary. I've never thought about foot binding at all in relation to the Chinese immigrant population in CA. It simply never occurred to me that they would continue the practice here--especially considering the ratio of men to women being so skewed with the Chinese Exclusion Act.