Remember Leland Stanford, who called Asian-Americans the "dregs" of "an inferior race" in his inaugural speech as California governor before it turned out that he would be absolutely dependent on their labor to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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The historians of Leland Stanford’s university have done extraordinary work on Leland Stanford’s legacy, and that of his times.
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Another strong recommendation: the prize-winning new book by Stanford PhD
@BethLewWilliams : The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America https://www.amazon.com/dp/0674976010/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_gtX1Cb7EDAQ3Z …
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