{"id":9544,"date":"2019-01-01T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:54:54","slug":"cllas-town-hall-mae-ngai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/cllas-town-hall-mae-ngai\/","title":{"rendered":"CLLAS Town Hall with Mae Ngai: &#8220;Citizenship and Denaturalization in the Era of US Nationalism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-9675\" src=\"https:\/\/cllas.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Mae-Ngai-FINAL.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"401\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Knight Library,&nbsp;Browsing Room<br \/>\n1501 Kincaid St.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>CLLAS Town Hall with Mae Ngai<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Center for Latino\/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) is sponsoring a Town Hall on January 17 at 4 pm with Mae Ngai, the 2018-19 Wayne Morse Chair. The discussion will focus on \u201cCitizenship and Denaturalization in the Era of US Nationalism\u201d and will be moderated by Roc\u00edo Zambrana, associate professor in the UO Department of Philosophy. Location is the Knight Library Browsing Room.<\/p>\n<p>Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history, Columbia University. Her research focuses on immigration, citizenship, and nationalism. Ngai is the author of&nbsp;<em>Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America<\/em>&nbsp;(2004), which won six major book awards, and <em>The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America<\/em>(2010). Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Los Angeles Time<\/em>s, <em>The Nation<\/em>, and the <em>Boston Review<\/em>. Before becoming a historian, she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education. Her upcoming book is&nbsp;<em>Yellow and Gold: The Chinese Mining Diaspora, 1848-1908<\/em>, a study of Chinese gold miners and racial politics in nineteenth-century California, the Australian colony of Victoria, and the South African Transvaal.<\/p>\n<p>See also this article on Mae Ngai from Around the O:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/around.uoregon.edu\/content\/professor-immigration-history-named-2018-19-morse-chair\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><em><strong>Professor of immigration history named 2018-19 Morse Chai<\/strong><\/em>r<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Knight Library,&nbsp;Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. CLLAS Town Hall with Mae Ngai The Center for Latino\/a and Latin 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