Faculty Talk: The Persistence of Nativism: The ‘Chinese Question' Revisited
Type
Video
Date
10-24-2006
Description
Betsy Huang, then assistant professor of English, received a Higgins School of Humanities grant in the spring of 2005 to research Asian-American participation in national debates on immigration. In this talk, she revisits "The Chinese Question," a hotly debated issue in the late 1800s on whether Chinese laborers should be expelled from the U.S. The debate lays bare the burden borne by immigrants who must prove their worth as potential citizens, the xenophobic sentiments that underpin anti-immigration policies, and the troubling fact that the rhetoric of nativism has undergone little change over the course of the twentieth century. This lecture took place October 24, 2006.
Duration
01:16:14
Genre
event
Keywords
Nativism, Chinese immigrants, United States history
Recommended Citation
University, Clark, "Faculty Talk: The Persistence of Nativism: The ‘Chinese Question' Revisited" (2006). Clark University Video Archive. 84.
https://commons.clarku.edu/videoarchive/84
