"If we always look back, we know how to move forward": H.T. Chen and Dian Dong on Documenting the History of Chinese Immigrants in the American So by Kathryn Turney

In 1850, news of the California Gold Rush reached China, leading 300,000 Chinese immigrants to settle in the United States — a few of whom settled in the American South. After the emancipation of slavery, there was work. They worked in cultural isolation facing countless societal barriers, but from field laborers to business owners, endured and prevailed. H.T. Chen and Dian Dong’s South of Gold M…

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