Name: Executive Editor at The New Yorker Michael Luo, “Strangers in the Land"
Start: 2025-05-01T19:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Louis County Library

$Executive Editor at The New Yorker Michael Luo, \u201cStrangers in the Land"$

Executive editor for The New Yorker, Michael Luo presents a masterful history of the Chinese in America that traces a more than century-long struggle to belong. “Strangers in the Land” tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted. At the book’s heart is a shameful chapter of American history: the brutal driving out of Chinese residents from towns across the American West. Today there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States and yet the “stranger” label, Luo writes, remains.
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