Discuss “Coming to America”

There was a quiet and intimate setting in Margaret Morrison Hall’s room 103 on Thursday. The weather may have been inclement, but not even a mechanical failure on Erika Lee’s plane, which managed to delay her arrival by a few hours, was going to ruin the evening.

Erika Lee, an associate professor in U.S. history at the University of Minnesota, received her Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Berkeley. Lee told how her primary research and teaching interests are in Asian American studies, immigration, comparative race and ethnicity, and 20th-century American history. She is currently researching Asian immigration and exclusion in the Americas during the late 1880s through the 1940s.

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