Zócalo Public SquareA Historian Who Wishes She Could Control Time – 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 Historian Who Wishes She Could Control Time https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/03/25/historian-wishes-control-time/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/03/25/historian-wishes-control-time/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Fri, 25 Mar 2016 07:01:07 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=71546 Erika Lee teaches history at the University of Minnesota, where she holds the Rudolph J. Vecoli chair in immigration history and is director of the Immigration History Research Center. Her latest book is The Making of Asian America: A History. Before she discussed how the 1965 Immigration Act changed America, she talked about her go-to comfort food, her favorite Jane Austen novel, and how her family bounced back and forth between China and the U.S. for generations.

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]]> Erika Lee teaches history at the University of Minnesota, where she holds the Rudolph J. Vecoli chair in immigration history and is director of the Immigration History Research Center. Her latest book is The Making of Asian America: A History. Before she discussed how the 1965 Immigration Act changed America, she talked about her go-to comfort food, her favorite Jane Austen novel, and how her family bounced back and forth between China and the U.S. for generations.

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