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This Day in Labor History: May 10, 1869
On May 10, 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines met at Promontory Point, Utah. The railroad itself was key to the growth of the American...
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Book Review: Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan, and Anita Mannur, eds.,...
The twenty essays that make up Eating Asian America demonstrate both the multiple approaches to food studies in an era where that field has exploded and how food is a wonderful window into the...
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How Asian-Americans Became Democrats
Pretty remarkable shift among Asian-American voting patterns. If post-1965 immigrants did indeed move the Asian American community to the right, the group’s leftward shift since 1992 is all the more...
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This Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920
On January 20, 1920, Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers soon joined them and this multiracial strike led to minimal victory for workers and,...
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This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1903
On February 11, 1903, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association formed to build racial solidarity among workers against sugar beet farmers near Oxnard, California. This was the first major cross-racial,...
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This Day in Labor History: March 24, 1934
On March 24, 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Better known as the Philippine Independence Act, Tydings-McDuffie initially sounds like a victory for...
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Yellow Power
This Clio Chang essay on a radical Asian-American newspaper she ran across is a good reminder that the history of Asian-America is not one of the modern stereotypes of “the good immigrants who...
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How Asian-Americans Became Democrats
Pretty remarkable shift among Asian-American voting patterns. If post-1965 immigrants did indeed move the Asian American community to the right, the group’s leftward shift since 1992 is all the more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920
On January 20, 1920, Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers soon joined them and this multiracial strike led to minimal victory for workers and,...
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This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1903
On February 11, 1903, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association formed to build racial solidarity among workers against sugar beet farmers near Oxnard, California. This was the first major cross-racial,...
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This Day in Labor History: March 24, 1934
On March 24, 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Better known as the Philippine Independence Act, Tydings-McDuffie initially sounds like a victory for...
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Yellow Power
This Clio Chang essay on a radical Asian-American newspaper she ran across is a good reminder that the history of Asian-America is not one of the modern stereotypes of “the good immigrants who...
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LGM Film Club, Part 121: San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1912
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 has to be close.
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Asian-Americans Buying Guns
We know that America is coming out of the pandemic now that there have been two massacres of random people in the last week. Back to normal baby! In any case, the attack on the Asian massage workers...
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The Long History of Anti-Asian Racism
The recent slaughter of Asian massage workers in Atlanta has reminded Americans that anti-Asian racism is a huge part of our history. I’ve written a good bit here over the years about how that...
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Trump and Asian-Americans
As much as I prefer not to link to Politico, I think this piece on how Trump’s anti-Asian racism may have created significant shifts in the Asian-American community that may build toward a sort of...
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LGM Film Club, Part 266: From Spikes to Spindles
In the 1970s, a significant movement developed in the sweatshops of Chinatown in New York, where workers demanded labor rights. They were represented by what was left of the old textile unions that...
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