Erika Lee

Author of The Making of Asian America: A History

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About the Author

Erika Lee is a Regents Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in immigration History and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, and president-elect of the Organization of American Historians. The author of The Making of Asian America and other show more award-winning books, Lee lives in Minneapolis, MN. show less

Image credit: University of Minnesota

Works by Erika Lee

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The Making of Asian America: A History (2015) 321 copies, 7 reviews

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (2019) 204 copies, 5 reviews

At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (2003) 101 copies, 1 review

Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010) 96 copies, 1 review

Made in Asian America: A History for Young People (2024) 33 copies, 1 review

The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924 1 copy

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Associated Works

Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past (2022) — Contributor — 217 copies, 3 reviews

A Companion to American Immigration (2006) — Contributor — 14 copies

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Birthdate: 1970
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Education: Tufts University (BA ∙ History and Cross-Cultural Studies)
University of California, Berkeley (MA ∙ History) (PhD ∙ History)
Occupations: historian

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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in… by Erika Lee

A disturbing journey through America's history of xenophobia, including this latest wave at the time of publication (2018).

Page 143: In his unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, drafted in 1928, Hitler applauded the [U.S.] 1924 Immigration Act as an effort to exclude the "foreign body" of "strangers to the blood" of the ruling race. The United States' recommitment to being a "Nordic-German" state was to be commended. America became, in Hitler's view, a racial model for Europe.

Indeed.… (more)

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