Zócalo Public SquareA Child of the ‘Stranded Students’ of 1949 – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 A Child of the ‘Stranded Students’ of 1949 https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/02/19/child-stranded-students-1949/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/02/19/child-stranded-students-1949/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:01:11 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=70563 Mae M. Ngai is professor of history and Lung Family professor of Asian-American Studies at Columbia University. Her work centers on questions of immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. She is author of the books Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America. Before she participated in a panel on the legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act, Ngai talked about Chinese miners in unlikely places around the world, returning to college late, and how much Americans really understand the Constitution.

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