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Posted by: Ryan Reft
On the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, the case of Gin Foo Wong highlights how Asian immigrants attempted to circumvent the law’s nativist policies through the tactic of creating “paper” sons and daughters.
Posted in: Asian American History, Labor, Law, Letters, Politics
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Congresswoman Patsy Mink's resolve to defeat gender-based discrimination and fight for women's educational equality encouraged the success of Title IX, which was passed fifty years ago today. Now a new quarter commemorates her legacy.
Posted in: Asian American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Josh Levy
A new resource guide describes the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) collection, a group of individual collections pertaining to notable Asian American authors, scholars, activists, and artists, among others. Collections described in the guide are accessible in the Manuscript Reading Room.
Posted in: Asian American History, Researcher Resources
Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs
Discover how former Library of Congress Asian Division chief Warren M. Tsuneishi built bonds across nationalities and languages through a shared love for books and knowledge.
Posted in: Asian American History, Intern Spotlight, Library of Congress History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
The recently acquired personal papers of award-winning poet and teacher Ai Ogawa (1947-2010) are newly processed and open to researchers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Asian American History, Literature Culture & the Arts, Native American History, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Elizabeth Novara
Congresswoman Patsy Mink’s resolve to defeat gender-based discrimination and fight for women’s educational equality encouraged the success of Title IX, which was passed fifty years ago today.
Posted in: Asian American History, Politics, Women's & Gender History
Posted by: Ryan Reft
Long subject to discriminatory immigration policies and violence, being Asian American in the United States has always been marked by incongruence and difficulty made clear in the correspondence between Viet D. Dinh and New York Times journalist Anthony Lewis.
Posted in: Asian American History, Letters, War and Society