HistoryTalks! The Origins of Asian America: A Global History of Empire and Migration

Join James Ikeda as he presents a narrative of Asian American history that goes beyond the traditional story of Asian immigrants overcoming discrimination and assimilating into the United States. This talk will focus on the larger contexts which shaped the flows of Asian migrants to the US in the first place—contexts defined in large part by the history of empire. Ikeda hopes to reframe Asian American history to shed light on the present, and the future, of Asian America.