Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War
- When
- Thu Nov 15, 2012
- Where
- Golden Gate Club
- Time
- 7 pm
- Tags
- Education
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This talk will address the impact of World War II on Chinese Americans, on both Hawaii and the US mainland, and most notably in San Francisco. Lecturer K. Scott Wong will describe the changes the war brought to the social status of Chinese Americans, changes in occupations, and their often over-looked service in the American military.Mr. Wong is the James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and Public Affairs at Williams College where he teaches courses in Asian American history, comparative immigration history, the history of the American West, history and memory, and American Studies. He is the co-editor, of Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era. Most recently, he published Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War.
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