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In the 1930s and 1940s, Americans who had grown up in China represented important connections to the United States. The author Pearl S. Buck, who introduced China to so many American readers, had also been born to missionary parents.
Peter Hessler • Other Rivers
Of the dozens of laws aimed at Indians decorating the legal gazettes of the South African colonies, perhaps the most urgently debated and carefully crafted were the ones on immigration. Although Ganda's uncles had entered South Africa freely, by the time he made his own journey in 1905, the net had tightened.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
generic, though gendered, Native.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Still, a momentum for change was building. During the 1960s, thanks to the civil rights and anticolonial movements, ideals of racial nondiscrimination took hold among First World policymakers and their constituents. In 1965, the United States repealed its ban on Asian immigration, using instead a system of quotas for each nation. In 1966, Australia
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
The Japanese defeat in World War II left 2.4 million Koreans stranded in Japan. They belonged to neither the winning nor the losing side, and they had no place to go. Once freed, they were simply thrown onto the streets. Desperate and impoverished, with no way to make a living, they attacked the trucks containing food intended for members of the im
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staged encounters.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act