Asian American History and the Making of the U.S. Immigration System

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction/rationale
  2. Content Objectives
  3. Teaching Strategies
  4. Appendix
  5. Bibliography
  6. Notes

Navajo Nation and Asian American Histories Together

Priscilla Black

Published September 2026

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Notes

[1] Calavita, Kitty. The Paradoxes of Race, Class, Identity, and ‘Passing’: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Acts, 1882-1910. P. 4

[2] Chan, Sucheng. Chinese American Transnationalism: The flow of People, Resources, p. 2

[3] Mae Ngai, “Chinese Gold Minders and the ‘Chinese Question’ in Nineteenth-Century California and Victoria, Journal of American History, vol. 101, no. 3, March 2015, p. 1096.

[4] Lee, Erika. The Chinese Exclusion Example:  Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924, p. 38.

[5] Calavita, Kitty. The background and overview of history: how the exclusion law is captured for a clear timeline.

[6] Lee, Erika points out the 1875 Page Act as one of the ways certain groups were screened out and not allowed to enter America, p. 42.

[7] Lee, Heather Ruth., “The Right to Return,” p. 375.

[8] Lee, Heather Ruth, “The Right to Return,” p. 375.

[9] https://www.mnhs.org/hmong/hmong-timeline

[10] Minnesota Historical Society. Mnhs.org

[11] Minnesota Historical Society. Mnhs.org

[12] Jane Hamilton-Merrit, Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993), pp. 147-8.

[13] Baird, Ian & Paul Hillmer. P. 4

[14] Hein, Jeremy. P.37

[15] Hein, Jeremy. P. 37

[16] New Mexico Historic Sites on August 8, 2026

[17] New Mexico Historic Sites August 8, 2026

[18] Denetdale, Jennifer. The Long Walk. p. 18.

[19] Denetdale, Jennifer. The Long Walk. p. 122.

[20] Iverson, Peter, p. 57. 

[21] Iverson, Peter, p. 58. 

[22] Michaelis, Bernhard. The Navajo Treaty 1868, p. 161. 

[23] Michaelis, Bernhard. The Navajo Treaty 1868, p.164. 

[24] Michaelis, Bernhard.  The Navajo Treaty 1868, p.167.

[25] Denetdale, Jennifer. The Long Walk. p. 73.

[26] Lee, Jennifer. Reckoning with Asian America and the New Culture War on Affirmative Action, p 864.

[27] Tsui, Emma K., Phd, MPH and Mary Huynh, PhD. Combating Anti-Asian American /Pacific Islander Racism Through Local Health Departments and Schools of Public Health. 1470-1471.

[28] Jacobson, Robin dale and Daniel Tichenor. State of Immigration: Making Immigration Policy from Above and Below, 1875-1924.

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