John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West
Professor Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University, will present a lecture titled "John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West" on Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
Location
Haldeman Hall 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Sponsored by
Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages, History Department
Audience
Public
John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West
Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Haldeman 041
Beth Lew-Williams is Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. She is a historian of race and migration in the United States, specializing in Asian American history. Her book, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), won the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Ellis W. Halley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, her next book project, John Doe Chinaman, will consider the policing of Chinese migrants in the American West.
Location
Haldeman Hall 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Sponsored by
Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages, History Department
Audience
Public