You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors at the weekend. Tv, television for serious readers. She teaches American History at university is the wishes a professor, a Mcknight University professor, the rudolph chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration History Research center. Lee is the author of three awardwinning books in u. S. Immigration, americas gates, chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 18821943, and angel island, gateway to america in the making of asian america, a history. At the immigration History Research center she has helped to merge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the humanities funded immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve and share their experiences. Her book america for americans a history of xenophobia in the United States is the subject of tonight talk. Please welcome erika lee.
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States. A federal judge has issued a harsh condemnation of the mass detention of immigrant women and children, calling conditions in the privatelyrun facilities deplorable. We will speak to a whistleblower who worked at a Family Detention Center in texas and hear the words of one immigrant who just testified on capitol hill. Always says to me mommy i am here. He asks me are we going back to room number 108. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In turkey, the military has carried out its heaviest assault on kurdish militants in Northern Iraq since air strikes began last week effectively ending a two year truce. Turkey has launched combat operations on two fronts. One against the selfproclaimed Islamic State in syria, and another against the kurdish workers party, or pkk, inside turkey and in Northern Iraq, where the pkk has been fighting against isofor the past year. During an emergency session in brussel