Forbidden Subjects: Sex, Class, and Race and 150 years of Immigration Exclusions
April 17 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
The James S. Schouler Lecture Symposium
Location: Scott-Bates Commons Salon C
[3301 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218 – conference center entrance is on 33rd St.]
This all-day symposium, “Forbidden Subjects: Sex, Class, and Race and 150 years of Immigration Exclusions,” commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first federal restrictive immigration law (the Page Act of 1875). We will be joined by other leading scholars of immigration history and law from around the country and JHU. The lecture symposium will offer a unique opportunity for interested students, faculty, and broader community members to come together around what will likely become an even more urgent topic in the new year.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
9:30am Introductory remarks: Julian Lim (JHU Department of History)
10:00am Panel 1: on sex and family
- Katherine Benton-Cohen (Georgetown University) (paper title forthcoming)
- Maddalena Marinari (Gustavus Adolphus College)
“Whose Families Belong Together? Family Reunification for Chinese Immigrants after the Page Act” - Jonathan Cortez (University of Texas at Austin)
“Camp Women: Sexuality, Gender, and the Archive of a Mexican Refugee Camp, 1914” - Moderator: Jessica Marie Johnson (JHU Department of History)
1:00pm Panel 2: on labor and class
- Hidetaka Hirota (University of California-Berkeley)
“‘Artificial Immigration’: The Alien Contract Labor Law and an Origin of the Debate on Undocumented Immigration” - Mireya Loza (Georgetown University) (paper title forthcoming)
- Julie Greene (University of Maryland at College Park)
“Settler colonialism, Labor, and the Making of Chinese Exclusion” - Moderator: Angie Bautista-Chavez (JHU Department of Political Science)
2:30pm Panel 3: on race and law
- Sam Erman (University of Michigan Law School)
“Jus Soli Nation to Jus Soli Evasion: International Lawyers for White Supremacy and the Road through Wong Kim Ark” - S. Deborah Kang (University of Virginia)
“Creating a ‘Mass Production Technique’: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952” - Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania)
“Children’s Rights in the Era of Chinese Exclusion” - Moderator: Julian Lim (JHU Department of History)
4:00pm reception and light refreshments
Co-sponsored by the JHU Department of History and Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
