
Tag: chinese-americans

Tonight’s film is this 1912 footage of San Francisco’s Chinatown, which may be the earliest film chronicling Asian-Americans that we have. I’m not sure about that as a fact, but it h
Fascinating and excellent essay about Ah Toy, the Chinese brothel madam in Gold Rush San Francisco, and the anti-Asian racism that impacted her long life in California. An excerpt: In time, however, o

How are you all this morning? Enjoying yourselves? Well, that’s nice and all, but let’s change the mood by delving into the legacy of American racism. Here is the 1908 pamphlet by American
I’ve talked before about how national parks, and especially the classic nature parks of the American West, are whitened places, with indigenous histories erased and indigenous people evicted. Th
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