Webinar: The Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law Dr. Beth Lew-Williams
The Mellon-funded U.S. Law and Race Initiative Webinar Series explores new approaches to research, teaching, and public engagement with the history of law, race, and racialization in the United States. Moderated and hosted by Katrina Jagodinsky, Jeannette Eileen Jones, and William G. Thomas III, the webinar series features guest speakers, scholars, lawyers, jurists, community members, students, and others who are doing innovative and inspiring work to help us understand the development of U.S. law and race. Recordings of previous webinars are available on the U.S. Law and Race Initiative's MediaHub Channel.
The Forgotten History of Chinese Life Under American Racial Law
Dr. Beth Lew-Williams (Princeton), September 28, 10:30-11:20 AM Central Zoom Registration
Dr. Beth Lew-Williams of Princeton University on her award-winning book, John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law, which explores how the law regulated the lives of Chinese residents in the American West and how they lived within and resisted those constraints. A short Q&A will follow.
This webinar will be held via Zoom on Monday, September 28, 10:30 AM-11:20 AM CST.
You can register at go.unl.edu/lawandracewebinar.
