Chapter 7: Workingmen, footnote 100, page 304 Ch7 fn. 100 p. 304 Tags: Discursive, Published Letters/Correspondence, Histories and Biographies, Race, Politics Chinese immigrants became, in the words of Mae Ngai, "simultaneously a social reality and a legal impossibility." Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004), 4. Bromley to Adams, Oct. 4, 1885, UP, RG 2361, box 21, Labor Disputes, Oct. 1885.