Detail: The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is proud to present a lecture and book signing featuring authors Erika Lee and Judy Yung.
Between 1910 and 1940, over half a million potential immigrants sailed through the Golden Gate, but due to the discriminatory laws of the time, most of these new arrivals from Asia faced detention, interrogation, and even deportation at Angel Island Immigration Station before they could pursue their dreams of a better life. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung present extensive new research into immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on detention center barrack walls producing the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station and the people who arrived there. Detainees included Chinese “paper sons,” Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world.
Erika Lee is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has won the Theodore Saloutos Book Prize in Immigration and Ethnic History and the 2003 History Book Prize from the Association of Asian American Studies. Judy Yung is Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she founded the Asian American Studies Program. She has won the Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award and the Jeanne Farr McDonnell Book Award in the Women’s Heritage category.
The lecture and book signing will be held in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Extension building at 328 J Street on Saturday, September 11th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Following the lecture, refreshments will be served at the reception held in the Chuang Garden at 404 Third Avenue. Admission is $2 and free for members and children under 12.
The San Diego Chinese Historical Museum is located at 404 Third Avenue in downtown San Diego.