Book Breaks with Michael Luo on Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

 

Date & Time: July 27, 2025, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK Through Reagan and Bush [Book]In a sweeping narrative, Michael Luo traces how White Americans’ reaction to Chinese immigrants has often been discriminatory, marked by violence, and focused on denying access to citizenship and property rights. Yet the Chinese in America endured. They opened businesses and built families. Evoking individual rights and equality under the law, Chinese activists pressed their new nation to live up to its ideals. 

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