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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 9d

That’s wonderful. I’m glad you’ll get more time to do the site justice.

Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 9d

This NPR story highlights the AMAZING archeological work of Laura Ng @cocalola.bsky.social. Laura has been tracking down descendants of the original Chinatown, including my dad (who gets a few words in at the end). www.kuow.org/stories/wyom...

Wyoming town erects new monument to violent, anti-immigrant history

At a time when President Trump is going after foreign laborers in the U.S, and saying unflattering accounts of U.S. history should be removed, Rock Springs, Wyoming has put up a new monument to ethnic...

www.kuow.org

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 17d

Might be possible! :)

Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations! Looks great.

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Michael Luo @michaelluo.bsky.social · 25d

A moving, searching essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, who has an important new book, “John Doe Chinaman.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The Ritual of Civic Apology

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

www.newyorker.com

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The Ritual of Civic Apology

More than a century after driving out their Chinese residents, cities across the West are saying sorry, with parks, plaques, and proclamations. But it’s seldom clear who they’re talking to—or what the...

www.newyorker.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨The Supreme Court today gives Trump a license to engage in racial profiling, with Justice Kavanaugh writing in concurrence to expressly endorse ICE and Border Patrol targeting any Latinos they observe in Los Angeles speaking Spanish and then demanding their papers.

Here,
those circumstances include:
that there is an
extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 884-885 (listing "[a]ny number of factors" that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a

KAVANAUGH, J., concurring
"relevant factor" when considered along with other salient factors. Id., at 887.
Under this Court's precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · May 1

***Attention fellow historians, scholars, and concerned individuals***

The California Digital Newspaper Collection is under financial threat, facing a $300,000 deficit.

If you would like to keep this essential resource afloat, please consider donating:

www.givecampus.com/campaigns/61...

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · May 21

Infuriating - just learned from Renee Tajima-Peña that #PBSLearningMedia has disappeared the Vincent Chin teaching module.

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · May 1

Thanks for all your help!

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Apr 30

My next book. Out in September!
@harvardpress.bsky.social
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

John Doe Chinaman — Harvard University Press

A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination ...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Mar 23

Please join an online event marking the 150th anniversary of the Page Act of 1875! @iehs.bsky.social and @ihrc-umn.bsky.social are pleased to hold this joint event on April 22. Register below!

umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Mar 20

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

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Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · Feb 28

A great essay by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, "Why Chinese Exclusion Matters (and Why It Doesn’t)," in @oah.org The American Historian. @iehs.bsky.social

www.oah.org/tah/industry...

OAH | Why Chinese Exclusion Matters (and Why It Doesn’t)OAH | Why Chinese Exclusion Matters (and Why It Doesn’t)

www.oah.org

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thanks! Your comments made it better.

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Jan 29

I’m glad that Stanford is giving this amazing collection a new home. But I will miss the California Historical Society.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/a...

California Historical Society to Dissolve and Transfer Collections to Stanford

The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.

www.nytimes.com

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Jan 22

The history we need right now.

From Ana Raquel Minian.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

Opinion | America Is a Nation of Immigrants That Has Not Lived Up to Its Promise

The huddled masses yearning to breathe free have not always been received with open arms.

www.nytimes.com

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Jan 15

Congratulations to the organizers in Philly Chinatown! No arena!

6abc.com/post/chinato...

Chinatown groups celebrate cancellation of 76ers arena deal

Even as they celebrate a win against 76 Place, those who opposed the controversial arena can't help but think the whole city got played.

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Jan 5

Exited to see @loriflores.bsky.social at #aha25 with her brand-new book, Awaiting Their Feast. Congratulations!

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · Jan 2

🗃️ Looking forward to #AHA25 this weekend, attending as many panels as I can & participating in a roundtable on the comparative history of immigration policy in the context of slavery in 19th-century US & Brazil, sponsored by @iehs.bsky.social & Conference on Latin American History, Sunday at 3:30pm

Participants and title of The Problem of Immigration in the
Largest Slaving Polities of the Americas: A Roundtable on the Comparative Emergence of Migration Regulation in 19th-Century Brazil and the United States

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Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · Nov 27

The special issue, Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era, has just been published in the Journal of the Civil War Era! Read brilliant articles by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, Ikuko Asaka, Stacey L. Smith, & Tian Xu and an inspiring concluding essay by Mae Ngai! muse.jhu.edu/issue/51479

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Beth Lew-Williams @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social · Oct 19

Now accepting applications for the Western History Dissertation Workshop.

This year Princeton will host in May 2024. It’s a great opportunity for PhD candidates working on the American West to share their work.

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Apply to the Western History Dissertation Workshop | H-Net

PhD Candidates Please Apply to the Western History Dissertation Workshop!

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Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · Sep 5

Pageproofs of the special issue, "Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era," in the Journal of the Civil War Era have arrived! The forum includes exciting essays by @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, Ikuko Asaka, Stacey L. Smith, Tian Xu, and Mae Ngai. Looking forward to its publication in December!

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