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Mae M. Ngai
Mae Ngai () is an American historian who is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. Her work focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, immigration, and race in 20th-century United States history. Early life and education Ngai was born in The Bronx, New York City, to a Taiwanese American family. Her family were Taiwanese ''waishengren'' that had fled mainland China for Taiwan during the Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan in 1949, and her maternal grandfather was a Kuomintang official. Ngai took a break from her schooling in 1972 to work as a community activist. After working in the Education and Political Action Department and the Consortium for Worker Education as a researcher and professional labor educator in an environment "where being Chinese and being American existed in tension, but not in contradiction," Ngai decided to pursue graduate school focusing on immigration studies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American History
The history of the present-day United States began in roughly 15,000 BC with the arrival of Peopling of the Americas, the first people in the Americas. In the late 15th century, European colonization of the Americas, European colonization began and wars and epidemics largely decimated Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous societies. By the 1760s, the Thirteen Colonies, then part of British America and the Kingdom of Great Britain, were established. The Southern Colonies built an agricultural system on Slavery in the United States, slave labor and Atlantic slave trade, enslaving millions from Africa. After the British victory over the Kingdom of France in the French and Indian Wars, Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament imposed a series of taxes and issued the Intolerable Acts on the colonies in 1773, which were designed to end self-governance. Tensions between the colonies and British authorities subsequently intensified, leading to the American Revolutionary War, Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bronx
The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, Westchester County to its north; to its south and west, the New York City borough of Manhattan is across the Harlem River; and to its south and east is the borough of Queens, across the East River. The Bronx, the only New York City borough not primarily located on an island, has a land area of and a population of 1,472,654 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest population density of the boroughs.New York State Department of Health''Population, Land Area, and Population Density by County, New York State – 2010'' retrieved on August 8, 2015. The Bronx is divided by the Bronx River into a hillier section in the West Bronx, west, and a flatter East Bronx, easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America
Illegal may refer to: Law * Violation of law ** Crime, an act committed in violation of criminal law * An illegal immigrant Entertainment * The Illegal (novel), ''The Illegal'' (novel) (2015), by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill * ''Illegal - Justice, Out of Order'', an Indian web series Films * Illegal (1932 film), ''Illegal'' (1932 film), British * Illegal (1955 film), ''Illegal'' (1955 film), American * Illegal (2010 film), ''Illegal'' (2010 film), Belgian * ''The Illegal'' (2019), film starring Suraj Sharma Bands * Illegal (group), a 1990s rap group * Los Illegals, a music band Song * Illegal (Shakira song), "Illegal" (Shakira song), 2005 * Illegal (PinkPantheress song), "Illegal" (PinkPantheress song), 2025 Food and drink * Ilegal Mezcal, a brand of mezcal from Guatemala ** Illegal (cocktail), a cocktail made with Ilegal Mezcal See also * * ''Illegal agent'', also known as Operational cover * Illegals Program, Russian spies arrested in the United States in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
