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Erika Lee
Erika Lee

Narrative: Erika Lee is an American historian and Director of the Immigration History Research Center. She is the author or co-author of the award winning books Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, (with Judy Yung, Oxford University Press, 2010) and At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) as well as many articles on immigration law and Asian American immigration. She is an active public scholar and has been an invited speaker at universities, historical societies, and community organizations around the U.S. She is currently finishing a book titled Asian Americas: Asian Immigration and the Making of the Americas, 1565 to the Present. Specialties: Migration, Race, and Ethnicity, Asian Americans, 20th-century United States, Law and Public Policy, Educational Background Ph.D.: History, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1998., M.A.: History, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 1993., B.A.: History and Cross-Cultural Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1991.

  • At America’s Gates

    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/885033.At_America_s_Gates At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During The Exclusion Era, 1882 1943 by Erika Lee With the…

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