Today at 7 p.m. I launch my book, IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY, at City Lights Books: the very embodiment of the Beat Generation. In 1956, the editor and the bookstore manager were arrested and charged w/ disseminating obscene literature for publishing the first edition of HOWL. Come!

Big joy in the Cullman Center at NYPL on pub day for the amazing Caoilinn Hughes The Alternatives. Read all about it here then order: nytimes.com/2024/04/16/boo…

Getting immortalized at the Cullman Center at NYPL. What a wonderful year it’s been.

Thursday, 4/25 — 'The Anonymous 'Chinamen:' Unruly Approaches to American Legal History.' Presented by Beth Lew-Williams '04, Director of Asian American Studies & Prof. of History at Princeton University. Part of the Diversifying Historical Epistemologies series. events.brown.edu/history/event/…

Long row of riot police outside ⁦Columbia University⁩ campus

NY police preparing to fly a drone over student protesters at ⁦Columbia University⁩

Alice (Yang) Zhang explores how the model minority trope impacted the “conditional inclusion” of Chinese adoptees from 1991 to 2015 when mainland China initiated legal overseas Chinese adoption.

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Selena Moon examines the histories of blind and Deaf Japanese Americans, a critically understudied and misunderstood aspect of both disability and immigration history.

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Check out the latest edition of the Journal of American Ethnic History!

The Spring 2024 issue is a special volume focusing on Asian American disability, guest edited by Naoko Wake (@MSU_HistoryDept).

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Illinois Press

Congratulations on this landmark work Ana Minian Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Look what arrived in the mail!

Thanks to all the incredible historians who came out for my filipino new orleans walking tour as part of #oah24

IEHS members gathered this week in New Orleans at #OAH 24 for our annual banquet. In between bowls of gumbo and grits we celebrated all of the amazing scholarship in immigration and ethnic history our colleagues produced this last year!

Save the date for a FREE event! April 17, 3pm ET. OAH Distinguished Lecturer Beth Lew-Williams will speak on her new book project 'John Doe China Man: Race and Law in the American West.' Register 👉 ow.ly/tsvV50RhtM2

🎉 Huge congrats to OAH Distinguished Lecturer Miroslava Chavez-Garcia on her latest achievement! 📚 Her new book 'Is Grad School for Me?' is a beacon of guidance, demystifying the application process for first-gen BIPOC students. 🌟 ow.ly/1jOU50RgbTL

The long-awaited book on the history of immigrant detention in the US by Ana Minian is finally published! Really looking forward to the book. Congratulations, Ana! #immigrationhistory

Really looking forward to reading this critically important book by Ana Minian. Don’t walk, run to buy it!

It’s heeeeere!!! Grab your copy of Ana Minian’s new book: In the Shadow of Liberty.

Attention to historians of US immigration, the US West, and Asian America, as well as legal historians, Beth Lew-Williams will talk about her new book! This will be a great event!