US immigration historian @UCBerkeley. Author of #ExpellingthePoor @ouphistory https://t.co/7NDYfxcmFt New books on labor importation & on Japanese immigration in progress
Mar 19, 2021 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Looking for books on anti-Asian prejudice, violence, and immigration policy? Start with these classic and recent ones. (Apologies in advance about my 19th-century inclinations!) #StopAsianHate
Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California. ucpress.edu/book/978052002…
Aug 7, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
How are you writing your dissertation? How did you write yours? How do you write your books? This is my method (so far). Note: I’m a historian. #writing 1/
My approach consists of 4 separate stages: 1) gathering sources, 2) reading/analyzing the sources I have collected, 3) organizing the sources and making a top down writing outline, 4) writing. 2/
Jul 21, 2019 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
Let’s get the history of American immigration policy straight. #immigrationhistory#legalhistory 1/
First of all, contrary to the popular and scholarly myth that American borders were open (meaning anybody could enter the US) until the introduction of federal Chinese exclusion law in the 1880s, American borders were NEVER legally open even before that. 2/
