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westernartgirlA Long Line of Scholars, and an Even Longer One of Immigrants
California Senator Carol Liu, who is Chinese-American, acknowledges her father and grandfather did not have to endure the ordeal of thousands of Asians and Pacific Islanders who entered the United States through Angel Island in the first half of the twentieth century. But as one in a long line of scholars, she shares those immigrants’ … Read more
Going East: Remembering a Different Kind of Immigrant Experience
They were just children, and to them, Angel Island was a place of uncertainty, boredom, sadness and separation. For myriad reasons, they had signed on to cross the Pacific Ocean by boat and emigrate to the place they had been told was Gim San, the “Golden Mountain”– the name Chinese on the mainland used to … Read more
