Mae Ngai: 2023 Hatfield Lecture
Mae Ngai, a US legal and political historian, Columbia University Lung Family professor of Asian American Studies, and former labor union organizer, will visit Portland to discuss her Bancroft Prize-winning book The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. The book pulls from Ngai's interests in citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora to investigate Chinese immigration as a result of widespread capitalism in the 19th century.