Michael Luo and Jill Lepore discuss “Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America”
Zoom +1 moreBeginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Chinese migrated to a distant land they called Gum Shan-–Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these arrivals. Strangers in the Land tells the story of what happened next and into modern times, revealing anew the complications of our multiracial democracy. Drawing on archives from […]
