2012-2013 Annual Newsletter
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City of Austin's Asian American Resource Center Grand Opening
Sat, September 28, 2013 • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM • 8401 Cameron Rd. Austin, TX 78754
The City of Austin's Asian American Resource Center is having its grand opening tomorrow, Saturday, September 28, 2013. The Center for Asian American Studies will have an exhibit about CAAS' history on display at the AARC.
A Nation of Immigrants? History, Politics and Immigration Reform
Talk by Dr. Mae Ngai, Columbia University
Mon, October 14, 2013 • 6:30 PM • Avaya Auditorium, 201 E. 24th St., Austin, TX, 78712
Free and open to the public. Click here for parking information.
Mae M. Ngai, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, is a pre-eminent U.S. legal and political historian examining the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. She is author of the multiple award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, 2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Oxford, 2010). Ngai’s editorials on immigration policy have appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Nation, and the Boston Review. Before becoming a historian, she was a labor organizer and educator in New York City. She is now working on Yellow and Gold: The Chinese Mining Diaspora, 1848-1908, a study of Chinese gold miners and racial politics in nineteenth-century California, Australia, and South Africa.
Hosted by the Center for Asian American Studies with generous support from the Humanities Institute through the Paul and Mary Ho Endowment, Institute for Historical Studies in the Department of History, Department of American Studies, and the Clark Center for Australia and New Zealand Studies.