Robert S Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3090337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle University School of Law |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7611-2947 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798, leading to the arrest of thousands of West Coast Issei men and their wartime detention in Army and INS facilities in an internment process that was distinct from the incarceration of nearly 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066. In the spring of 2025, President Donald J. Trump invoked this act agains…
Revisiting the Census Citizenship Question
Hidetaka Hirota. Expelling the Poor
In the field of law, the standard account is that modern U.S. immigration law jurisprudence formed largely through legal challenges to the response by western states and the federal government to the perceived problem posed by Chinese immigration in the nineteenth century. In this account, populist politicians, labor leaders, and newspapers led the charge in portraying Chinese immigrant laborers as posing a threat to the prosperity of deserving “…
The Great White Hope
In the run-up to and aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, much has been made of the so-called “white working class.” Some credit or blame this group for the election’s outcome. Others warn against treating this group as monolithic. Yet despite any difficulties in defining this group and what might be ascribed to them, there appears to be an intensification of white racial identity among a growing segment of America’s white population. …
Minority Relations
Race, Rights, and Reparation
I teach a course on Asian Americans and the Law in a law school. In previous years, my class usually spent two weeks of a fourteen-week semester on Japanese [End Page 285] American internment and redress. There were always some students who thought that it was just history, an example of a terrible injustice that was eventually recognized as such and rectified. For those students, it was a past that was past
Who's Afraid of Tiger Woods
marked the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in major league baseball.' While I was mourning the fact that so little progress had been made in 50 years, the mainstream media was celebrating it as an important moment in the nation's narrative of racial progress. 2 It was, in some ways, a bittersweet remembrance as the nation was forced to recall the dark days of racial segregation. But the pain or guilt is softened bec…
Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship
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Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship
Who's Afraid of Tiger Woods
marked the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in major league baseball.' While I was mourning the fact that so little progress had been made in 50 years, the mainstream media was celebrating it as an important moment in the nation's narrative of racial progress. 2 It was, in some ways, a bittersweet remembrance as the nation was forced to recall the dark days of racial segregation. But the pain or guilt is softened bec…
Race, Rights, and Reparation
I teach a course on Asian Americans and the Law in a law school. In previous years, my class usually spent two weeks of a fourteen-week semester on Japanese [End Page 285] American internment and redress. There were always some students who thought that it was just history, an example of a terrible injustice that was eventually recognized as such and rectified. For those students, it was a past that was past
The Great White Hope
In the run-up to and aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election, much has been made of the so-called “white working class.” Some credit or blame this group for the election’s outcome. Others warn against treating this group as monolithic. Yet despite any difficulties in defining this group and what might be ascribed to them, there appears to be an intensification of white racial identity among a growing segment of America’s white population. …
Minority Relations
Hidetaka Hirota. Expelling the Poor
In the field of law, the standard account is that modern U.S. immigration law jurisprudence formed largely through legal challenges to the response by western states and the federal government to the perceived problem posed by Chinese immigration in the nineteenth century. In this account, populist politicians, labor leaders, and newspapers led the charge in portraying Chinese immigrant laborers as posing a threat to the prosperity of deserving “…
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) of 1798, leading to the arrest of thousands of West Coast Issei men and their wartime detention in Army and INS facilities in an internment process that was distinct from the incarceration of nearly 127,000 persons of Japanese ancestry under Executive Order 9066. In the spring of 2025, President Donald J. Trump invoked this act agains…
Revisiting the Census Citizenship Question
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Immigration (2 works)