Photographer Wing Young Huie knew that his family came to Minnesota to start a new life. But why they moved is something he never knew growing up. Like, not at all.
The e-mails started flooding historian Erika Lee’s inbox the week after the election of Donald J. Trump. Lee, who is director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota and has written extensively about US immigration history, recalls that her fellow scholars had “questions like ‘what are we going to do when the deportation trains start running again?’”
During this time of developing and fast-breaking news on immigration, we thought it would be useful to share some of the resources that we have found useful in our own teaching and research.
Professor Erika Lee, graduate student Evan Taparata, and other scholars associated with the Immigration History Research Center have come together to help us understand Trump’s executive orders on immigration by creating an annotated version of the order itself.
The Immigration History Research Center has taken the lead in creating a public syllabus on the history of immigration to the US. The hope is that ordinary citizens can better understand the complexities--and myths--of our immigration past and present.
Visual artist Chamindika will talk about how she and her team are building a community of POC/Indigenous people in contemporary puppetry and comic arts in the Twin Cities, how they're...
