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Mae Ngai is an American historian who serves the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. Her work focuses on nationalism, citizenship, ethnicity, immigration, and race in 20th-century United States history. Ngai's most notable work was Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, which discussed the creation of the legal category of an "illegal alien" in the early 20th century and its social and historical consequences and context.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Mae Ngai Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library
Consisting of research notes and materials, correspondence, teaching materials, and photographs, this collection will be valuable to scholars studying the history and historiography of Asian-American activism, the labor movement, and immigration in U.S. society.
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