The Great Transformation: Seeing America from the Gilded Age to World War IIThe NEH Picturing America Conferences at the Newark MuseumSaturday, February 25, 2012
Dr. Chang discusses the topic of immigration in the late 19th and 20th century. Why and how immigrants came to the United States and how they were received is a focus of this talk.
Dr. Kornel Chang is assistant professor of History and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. His research interests include modern U.S. history, international migration and border controls, Asian diaspora, and the United States in the Pacific world. His current book project is a study of the western U.S.-Canadian borderlands in the Pacific world, examining how the region arose from frontier expansion, the globalizing forces of capital and empire, and the territorializing process of state formation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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