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History of Anti-AANHPI Laws
and Legal Battles Wehinar Series

🚨Who gets to belong and who decides?

Join us for Citizenship as Architecture, the first event in our two-part History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles series.

From the 1790 Naturalization Act to Wong Kim Ark, this conversation uncovers how American law built the very idea of citizenship through exclusion, loyalty, and race, and how those boundaries still shape belonging today.

📅 Monday, December 1 at 5:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. ET
🎙️ Featuring: Robert S. Chang, Aziz Rana, and Hiroshi Motomura

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🚨From exclusion laws to “foreign ownership” bans, bureaucracy has always been a border.

Join us for Paperwork as Power, the second event in our two-part History of Anti-AANHPI Laws and Legal Battles series.

From the Geary Act to the Alien Land Laws, learn how documents, data, and property restrictions turned suspicion into control, and how those systems still shape belonging today.


📅 Wednesday, December 3 at 5:00 p.m. PT / 8:00 p.m. ET
🎙️Featuring: Mae Ngai, Natsu Taylor Saito, and Xiaojian Zhao

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