Historian @Princeton; preoccupied by immigration past and present; author of THE CHINESE MUST GO https://t.co/XgGCKv8MNt
Apr 12, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
When profs @Stanford launched an investigation of Chinese railroad workers on the Central Pacific, I thought this might bring a reckoning akin to the slavery and justice projects at other universities. /1
Under the direction of profs Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, however, it became both more and less. It flourished into a 7-year transnational, interdisciplinary collaboration, a website, public history events, and two books. /2 web.stanford.edu/group/chineser…
Jan 2, 2019 • 26 tweets • 3 min read
For those headed to #AHA2019 for job interviews. Some common questions to help you prep (based on a workshop I attended years ago). Add your own!
The classic: How did you develop your dissertation topic? How did you become interested in it? Tell us about your diss. Explain to us how your writing sample fits into the rest of your diss.
Oct 31, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Trump says he wants to end “illegal” immigration. But his approach on immigration will immediately produce more undocumented people, not fewer.
Maybe that’s the point. /1
Yesterday, Trump said he was preparing an executive order to deny birthright citizenship to the children of the undocumented. If every child of an unauthorized immigrant were denied citizenship, @MigrationPolicy projects 24 million undocumented in the US by 2050. /2
Jun 14, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
At 9 years old, my grandfather was separated from his family and placed in immigration detention. He was still talking about that “9-12 month” ordeal decades later, up to the week he died. The wound had never closed. After he passed ... 1/4
I learned he had been detained for just 34 days.
