We are Americans: Lecture and Reception Comments at the 80th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act At Library of Congress 12/6/2023 and at 1882 End-of-Year Lunch 1/17/2023

I do want to say few closing remarks. It is easy for us to pronounce that the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act is for the purpose of righting a wrong, to get justice for the harm and violence that…

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The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui — Review by Hannah Ku

“And though my parents took us far away from the site of their grief… certain shadows stretched far. Casting a gray stillness over our childhood…hinting at a darkness we did not understand but could always feel”  In this beautifully illustrated…

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Event Recap: Seeing Lost Enclaves: Relational Reconstructions of Erased Communities of Color

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Jeffrey Yoo Warren, a Korean American artist-educator, community scientist, illustrator, researcher, and Library of Congress 2023 Innovator in Residence, presented his project “Seeing Providence Chinatown” at the 1882 Foundation’s Talk Story event on Sunday, July 23.  “Seeing Providence Chinatown” is…

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