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Spinning Race, Citizenship and Fear on the Campaign Trail: A History
November 3, 2016 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY and CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA invite you to
Spinning Race, Citizenship and Fear on the Campaign Trail: A History
Presented by: Professor Jack Tchen, New York University Professor and Co-Author of “Yellow Peril!: An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear”
James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse Courtroom 3
95 7th Street, San Francisco
Thursday, November 3, 2016 4:30 PM
Seats are limited. Lawyers are encouraged to attend for MLCE credit. For information and tickets, please visit Eventbrite >>
About the Author:
John Kuo Wei Tchen is an award-winning historian and curator currently researching the ongoing impacts of eugenics on American life, Jim Crow spatiality, subaltern archives, and modern organizational design. Recent exhibitions include: “The Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office,” “The Normal,” and “In the Shadow of the Highway: Robert Moses’ Expressway & the Battle for Downtown.” Tchen is also co-author of Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear (2014) — a study emerging from 30 years of building of research collections in NYC. He is completing a six-year arc of work on the Chinese Exclusion Act and how/why it has been invisibilized in US history and culture. This includes an exhibit with the New-York Historical Society called Chinese America: Exclusion/Inclusion now the core exhibit at the Chinese Historical Society of America – SF, and working with Ric Burns and Li-shin Yu (Steeplechase Films) on a PBS documentary airing on The American Experience Spring 2017, a companion book (Knopf), and teaching a NEH Summer Institute (2016) at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA). Tchen co-founded MOCA in 1980. He also founded the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Program & Institute at New York University in 1996.