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Anyway, congratulations on what is a terrific book. Im so glad youve returned this. We have written so many books and articles about the dissidents and opposition and that is like maybe 10 of the population we dont hear a lot of people in between make do and get by. The idea came to me slowly as i found i wasnt exactly able to capture what i was seeing and feeling and maybe because i wasnt understanding the picture myself when i arrived with that dichotomy that you mentioned looking for the oppressors. With stalin or neo and that makes for good journalism. With time i realized i wasnt doing justice to the country and there was a lot of left out of the story. But i didnt totally have the framework if it wasnt this battle between the position debate co opposition. We can talk about this a bit and it takes up most of the prologue of the book was the way of making sense of what was going on and helping me understand the way that most people the dynamics that guide people are ultimately so
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Unfiltered at cspan. Org cspan. Org coronavirus. American history of the university of minnesota, where she is region professor, distinguished unite professor, chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration History Research center. The author of three awardwinning books in u. S. Immigration. American history at americas date chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 1882 1943, angel island gateway to america and the making of asian america. A history. At the immigration history, we have helped merge immigration history and the digital humanities. She launched an overseas National Endowment for the Humanity Fund and immigration story, projects which work with recent emigres to share their expenses. Her book, america for americans, history of xenophobia in the United States is subject tonight talk. Please welcome erica. [applause] im so glad to be here. Im glad to be back here at town hall. I was so blessed here in 2010, before it was activated. Im happy to be ba