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Frank Wu on Anti-Asian American Propaganda

  • The Grolier Club 47 East 60th Street New York, NY, 10022 United States (map)

Speaker: Frank H. Wu
Organizer: Eve Kahn
Moderator: Olivia Loksing Moy

A talk by Grolier Club member Frank H. Wu, President of Queens College and distinguished law professor, scholar and author, on his collection of anti-Asian propaganda, illustrated with examples. Before joining the staff of Queens College, Dr. Wu was a professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of Law and Howard University Law School in DC, and served as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. He is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, and the co-author of Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese Internment. He collects ephemera about the Asian-American experience, including anti-Asian propaganda from the late 19th century through WWII, and about immigration.