IEHS Co-Sponsored Sessions in 2010
American Historical Association, January 7-10, 2010, San Diego
Filipino/a Diasporas in Historical Perspective
Chair: Barbara M. Posadas, Northern Illinois University
“From There to Here and Back: Migration, Marriage, and Filipino American Transnational Families”
- Maria Paz G. Esguerra, University of Michigan
“The Strange Career of the First and Second Filipino Regiments: Military Service and Citizenship in Filipino America, 1940-1965”
- Christopher Cappozola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“In No Man's Shadow: The Life of Filipina Businesswoman Apolonia Dangzalan”
- Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley
Comment: Roland L. Guyotte, University of Minnesota, Morris
To and From America: Re-Framing Migration and Nativism in the United States, 1840-2008
Chair: William Jenkins, York University
“Across the Atlantic Once Again: Forced Migration of the Poor from the United States to the British Isles”
- Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College
“Learning to Write Stories of Migration: The Journeys of Raul Martinez Rosario”
- Emma Amador, University of Michigan
“Skyscrapers and Chicken Plants: Latinos and Sunbelt Immigration Politics in Greater Charlotte, 1990-2008”
- Julie M. Weise, California State University, Long Beach
Comment: David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Breaching Exclusion’s Walls: New Approaches to Immigration Restriction, Border Control, and Racial Categories
Chair: Gordon Chang, Stanford University
"Chinese Student Migration to the United States: Exclusion and Its Exemptions"
- Madeline Hsu, University of Texas, Austin
“Like a Chameleon: From ‘Japanese' to ‘Americans' (of Japanese Ancestry), 1957-1974”
- Brian Hayashi, Kyoto University
“Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America"
- Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
Commentator: Gordon Chang, Stanford University
Shifting Discourses of Race during the Cold War Era
Chair: Chiou-ling Yeh, San Diego State University
“The Korean War and Race in the Minds of U.S. Foreign Policy Leaders, 1948-1954” - Kevin Kim, Stanford University
“There Were Many, Many Tourists and Quite a Few Negroes”: The Making of an African American Tourist Industry during the Cold War”
- Tiffany Gill, University of Texas, Austin
"Ethnic Americanism: The American GI Forum and Early Activism in Crystal City, Texas”
- Marc S. Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame
“A Model for All American Mothers: Toy Len Goon, American Mother of the Year, and Cold War America”
- Chiou-ling Yeh, San Diego State University
“The Emergence of Asian Americans as Definitively Not-Black Model Minorities”
- Ellen Dione Wu, Indiana University
Comment: The Audience
Mexico’s Chinese: Disputed Identities and Claims of Belonging
Chair: Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
“Stuck at the Border: The Mexican Revolution, Chinese Refugees, and the Exclusion Era United States”
- Julian Lim, Cornell University
“El Destierro de los Chinos": Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos”
- Robert Chao Romero, University of California, Los Angeles
“Becoming Mexican Across the Pacific: The Expulsion of Mexican Chinese Families from Mexico to China and Diasporic Imaginings of a Mexican Homeland, 1930s – 1960s”
- Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho, University of Texas at El Paso
Comment: Grace Delgado, Penn State University
Organization of American Historians, April 7-10, 2010, Washington, D.C.
Across the Pacific: Migration between Japan, the Philippines, and Taiwan—and the United States
Chair: Barbara M. Posadas, Northern Illinois University
“The Fifty-first State: Taiwan as an Outpost of American Values”
- Franklin Ng, California State University, Fresno
“Democratic Ideals and the Consequences of Reality: Ethnicity/Race, Religion, and Patriotism”
- Eileen Tamura, University of Hawaii
“Immigrant or Conqueror: A Tale within a Tale of Americans in the Philippines”
- Judith R. Raftery, California State University, Chico
Comment: K. Scott Wong, Williams College
Ethnicity, Migration, and Public History since the 1960s
Chair: Joel Wurl, National Endowment for the Humanities
“The American Museum of Immigration: A National Shrine in the Era of Ethnic Revival”
- Joan Fragaszy Troyano, George Washington University
“Doing Well by Doing Right: Museums and Migration History in Late Twentieth-Century America”
- John Grabowski, Case Western Reserve University
“Making Seattle an Asian City: Building and Rebuilding the Wing Luke Asian Museum, 1965-2008”
- Arina Reejhsinghani, University of Texas, Austin
Comment: Joel Wurl
American Culture/American Democracy from the Margins: Ethnic and Immigrant Experiences in Negotiating U.S. Society
Chair: Elliott R. Barkan, California Statte University, San Bernardino
“Work, Family, Ethnicity, and Nation: Adapting to American Culture as a Workingman in New England’s Petits-Canadas at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
- FlorenceMae Waldron, Millersville University
“Banning Shylock: Jewish Efforts to Censor Racial Ridicule in Early Motion Pictures”
- M. Alison Kibler, Franklin and Marshall College
“Learning to Be a Citizen”
- Dorothee Schneider, University of Illinois
Comment: Hasia Diner, New York University
Revisiting John Higham’s Strangers in the Land: A Classic in a New Era of Migration and Immigration Studies
Chair: Timothy Meagher, Catholic University
Panelists: Katherine Benton-Cohen, Georgetown University
Alan Kraut, American University
Maddalena Marinari, University of Kansas
Deidre Moloney, George Mason University