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 # ENGLISH R1A: Chinatown and the Culture of Exclusion
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 [Notebook 1](http://datahub.berkeley.edu/user-redirect/interact?account=ds-modules&repo=XENGLIS-31AC&branch=master&path=01-Chinatowns.ipynb)