K. Scott Wong
Contact:
Kevin.S.Wong@williams.edu
North Academic Building, Rm 332
413.597.2521
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James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and American Studies
B.A. (1976) Rutgers University
Ph.D. (1992) University of Michigan
Research Interests:
The meaning of citizenship in immigration history
The "Pro-Chinese Movement" in late-19th and early 20th-century America
The study of history and historical memory
Selected Publications:
Books:
Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War (Harvard University Press), 2005.
Co-editor with Sucheng Chan, Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1998.
Co-editor with Gary Okihiro, Marilyn Alquizola, and Dorothy Rony, Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995).
Articles & Essays:
"Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities," in Diaspora and Displacement: Researching and Teaching in the Asian Diasporas, Wanni Anderson and Robert Lee, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
“War Comes to Chinatown: Social Transformation and the Chinese of America," in The Way We Really Were: Everyday Life in WWII California, Roger Lotchin, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), 2000.
“The Meaning of Military Service to Chinese Americans During WWII," Duty and Honor: A Tribute to Chinese American World War II Veterans of Southern California, Marjorie Lee, ed. (Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California), 1998.
“Immigration and Race: The Politics and Rhetoric of Exclusion," in Gregory R. Campbell, ed., Many Americas: Perspectives on Racism, Ethnicity, and Cultural Identity (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.), 1998.
“The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America," American Quarterly, 48: 2 (June, 1996) pp. 201-232. Reprinted in Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline ed. Lucy Maddox (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
“‘The Eagle Seeks a Helpless Quarry’: Chinatown, the Police, and the Press. The 1903 Boston Chinatown Raid Revisited," Amerasia Journal 22:3 (1996).
“Chinatown: Conflicting Images, Contested Terrain,"MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), 20:1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 3-15.
“Liang Qichao and the Chinese of America: A Re-evaluation of his Selected Memoir of Travels in the New World," Journal of American Ethnic History, 11:4 (Summer 1992), pp. 3-24. (Received the Carlton Qualey Award from the Immigration History Society).