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Chrissy Yee Lau

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US Historian - Asian American History, US Women’s History, Public History. Author of New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America.

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Tomorrow May 5

04.05.2025 15:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Come out to SFSU on May 5 and see Kristina Wong perform her new show on food insecurity and justice.

25.04.2025 21:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kristina Wong May 5 SFSU

24.04.2025 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Letter to My Husband, Mahmoud Khalil | ACLU As she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Noor Abdalla writes to her husband one month after he was unlawfully detained for exercising his free speech rights.

“I could not be more proud of you, Mahmoud…What more could I ask for as a role model for our children than a man who, with unwavering conviction, stands up for the liberation of his people, fully cognizant of the consequences of speaking truth to power?”

12.04.2025 18:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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California Students, Blindsided by Visa Cancellations, Sue Trump Administration | KQED Lawsuits filed by two international students at California colleges come as hundreds across the country are effectively stripped of the ability to keep studying in the U.S.
09.04.2025 04:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Hands Off!’ protest in Oakland denounces Trump, Musk's power grab East Bay residents gathered in Oakland and Berkeley, calling out the Trump administration’s purge of the federal government and its attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ communities and the rule of law.
08.04.2025 16:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Real-Life Tales Behind ‘Freaky Tales’ A Nazi beatdown, an Oakland rap battle, a hoops miracle — the new Pedro Pascal movie is based on actual people and events.

So satisfying to watch this movie in this political moment.

08.04.2025 16:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

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Student who sued Trump takes powerful stand against ‘constant dread’ of deportation threats The lawsuit of Yunseo Chung, whose green card was revoked, asks: what limits remain on the Trump administration’s power?

Student who sued Trump takes powerful stand against ‘constant dread’ of deportation threats www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

29.03.2025 00:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Student who sued Trump takes powerful stand against ‘constant dread’ of deportation threats The lawsuit of Yunseo Chung, whose green card was revoked, asks: what limits remain on the Trump administration’s power?

Student who sued Trump takes powerful stand against ‘constant dread’ of deportation threats www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

29.03.2025 00:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.
10.03.2025 03:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘No ICE in Dublin’: Hundreds protest prison’s potential reopening as immigrant center The former women’s prison, closed after allegations of sexual assault by staff members, is seen as a possible site for detaining immigrants.
02.03.2025 19:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hundreds protest shuttered FCI Dublin prison becoming ICE detention center Hundreds of people turned out Saturday afternoon, protesting near the now-closed federal women's prison in Dublin where some fear it may become an ICE detention center.
02.03.2025 07:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'Honestly terrifying': Yosemite National Park is in chaos The Trump administration is derailing decades of conservation efforts in California's most loved park.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 55 years,” says Beth Pratt, a regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, who lives near Yosemite and is working on a book called “Yosemite Wildlife.” “Just to want to gut the Park Service? I don’t understand it.”

15.02.2025 22:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

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Update: Name was corrected

29.01.2025 04:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Chinatown icon key to birthright citizenship Wong Kim Ark won a landmark Supreme Court case 127 years ago.

I think “Huey” is me in this interview. I am “Huey”. 🤣

“Wong, despite limited financial resources, decided to fight back through the courts, which Huey said was not especially out of character for Chinese Americans in those days.”

29.01.2025 04:08 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Bay Area Japanese Americans Draw on WWII Trauma to Resist Deportation Threats | KQED President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite deportations has rekindled trauma for Japanese Americans who were relocated and imprisoned during World War II...

“We’ve done many things to now get the fourth and fifth generation [of Japanese Americans] to recognize that there have been long-term impacts and that they have a stake in stopping the same injustice that was perpetrated against us back then,” said Ina, 80.

26.01.2025 18:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sonoma State Is Reeling After Huge Cuts. Where Does the School Go From Here? | KQED As the university slashes entire departments and degree programs, officials advise students who are more than 60 units away from graduating to switch majors.

“You’re losing your job, and then your department that you’ve poured your heart and soul into for more than 20 years is also going to be eliminated,” Tung said. “But I feel like some of the deeper pain is that future students are not going to get what we have to offer and what we’ve been offering.”

26.01.2025 03:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Black plastic takeout boxes are a staple of the Bay Area food scene. Can we actually get rid of them? Our desire for cheap, convenient food that doesn’t give us cancer might not be reconcilable with economic and regulatory realities.

Unlike the spatula in your kitchen, you can’t control what packages a restaurant uses for takeout. And as of 2021, third-party food delivery has grown into a more than $150 billion global industry. That’s a lot of takeout containers. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...

23.11.2024 16:20 👍 106 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 6
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“This book exposes Revelation’s apocalyptic logic at work in the history of Chinese exclusion, the association of the unwanted and the disease, the contradictions of citizenship laws, and the justification for building a US-New Mexico wall like the wall around New Jerusalem.” Congrats JanJan!

23.11.2024 04:10 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: Trump's border czar and a history we should not forget The next administration is gearing up for mass deportations. When 'repatriation' happened in Los Angeles nearly a century ago, U.S. citizens were expelled.

“Although we think of these repatriation drives as federally driven, they were largely enacted by local officials, a stark reminder that local governments have tremendous power to harm — but also to resist. Grassroots activism can push back, lean in and go high when others go low.” -Natalia Molina

19.11.2024 06:04 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

My department is conducting a search for an Assistant Professor of Japanese American/Nikkei Studies. We could be colleagues!

18.11.2024 21:46 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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We warned you that Gaza would define the US elections US voters concerned about Israel's genocide in Gaza were criticised, but Trump’s victory shows they're not a minority that should be ignored, argues Nada Elia.

“We have no choice but to persevere, keep educating our potential allies, keep sustaining our local and transnational communities through mutual aid, care, transformative justice, and basic humanity, knowing we cannot rely on presidents to save us.”

18.11.2024 17:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | Enough To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.

For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

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As sources say Trump could deport undocumented Chinese first, Asian American groups rush to prep Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration.

“There is no time for rest. We are seeing real danger,” Yoo said. “We’re going to push and we’re going to have to be brave.”

18.11.2024 04:31 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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17.11.2024 15:02 👍 334 🔁 112 💬 49 📌 5

Please add me. Thank you!

17.11.2024 23:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A starter pack on Ethnic Studies Professors. Hit me up to add you to the pack.

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