Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies an professor of history at Columbia University. She is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004), The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Modern America (2010), and The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Racial Politics (2021).
Mae Ngai
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The 100-Year-Old Racist Law that Broke America’s Immigration System
The Chinese and Asiatic exclusion laws of the 19th and early 20th century paved the way for the Immigration Act of 1924.
