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This is a repository of all my research, book reviews and essays from my undergraduate and graduate classes at California State University, East Bay. They appear in chronological order.

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Obama Administration Redux

Our immigration policies have been shaped by xenophobic, anti-immigrant and nativist attitudes. These attitudes tend to become heightened...

Anti-immigrant Sentiment

Anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States has a long history dating back to the founding fathers. In Guarding the Golden Door:...

Good Refugee, Bad Refugee

The treatment of Cuban and Haitian refugees provides an example of how subjective American immigration policy has become. On the eve of...

A Nation of Refugees

A long standing viewpoint in the United States as related by Daniels in the book, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy...

Advice on Unintended Consequences

The author, Greg Robinson points out the negative consequences of Roosevelt’s decision to intern people of Japanese descent, both...

Was Internment Racist?

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt started to receive pressure from U.S. Army...

"Mexican" Jobs

There is a long and well established history of segregation in the work place in the United States. In Camille Guerin-Gonzales’ book,...

Chinese Exclusion Act

Beginning with the push to restrict Chinese immigration in the 19th century, including the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882,...

Birds of Passage

The phrase “birds of passage” was used to describe Mexican laborers who would come to the United States, work for low wages, then return...

Testimony of Ms. Xing, Wife of Zhu Bingren, 1814

A Case Study of Religious Rebellion: Testimony of Ms. Xing, Wife of Zhu Bingren, 1814 This case concerning the Eight Trigrams rebellion...

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