Anna Pegler-Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 507775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Pegler-Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Pegler-Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | PEGLER-GORDON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7209-4280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark
Birthright citizenship, as a common law principle, was a cornerstone of the American Republic at its founding. 1 Like many “universal” rights at the time, it was presumed to apply to white people, routinely denied to enslaved people, and deeply contested for free people of color. After the Civil War, amid the effort to rebuild a fractured Union and answer the decades-long Black freedom struggle, Congress sought to affirm and extend the principle …
Documenting Birthright Citizenship under Chinese Exclusion
Following the Wong Kim Ark decision in 1898, ethnic Chinese, other Asians, and almost all individuals born on U.S. soil secured the right to jus soli birthright citizenship. They could not, however, secure recognition of their citizenship without documentation, the key that linked birth to birthright. At a time when birth registration was not common, ethnic Chinese were able to establish U.S. citizenship in two main ways: through an order by a U.…
William Gee Wong. Sons of Chinatown
Wong Kim Ark 's children
This paper argues that the pairings of citizenship and immigration, territory and mobility – pairings often considered distinct to or even opposite of one another – are critically interconnected. These links are particularly visible in the experiences of Chinese-born children of U.S.-born fathers. These children secured jus sanguinis birthright citizenship from their fathers, fathers who secured jus soli birthright citizenship under the Wong Kim …
From Confinement to Containment
New York Has a Concentration Camp of Its Own
Although it has been overlooked in histories of both Ellis Island and Japanese American wartime confinement, Ellis Island was not only an immigration station but also a World War II "enemy alien" internment camp. Japanese New Yorkers varied in their responses to detention at Ellis Island, but they shared experiences of being separated from their families, confined in close quarters, and questioned about their loyalty. These experiences created co…
Debating the Racial Turn in U.S. Ethnic and Immigration History
This is the accepted version of an article published in Journal of American Ethnic History. The publisher's version of the article can be found here: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.36.2.0040
Making Photography Matter
Photographic historians emphasize the importance of the production, circulation, and reception of photographs. However, as Cara A. Finnegan notes, there are very few studies that examine the ways photographs were viewed historically. Visual studies scholars discuss what “we” see in an image, but this “we” is more often the historian than the historical viewer (p. 6). Finnegan's study ably addresses this problem by analyzing the “rhetorical traces…
Shanghaied on the streets of Hoboken
Although largely overlooked in both maritime and immigration histories, the regulation of sailors has been linked to Chinese exclusion and immigration restriction since these laws were first introduced in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Restrictionists in Congress, immigration officials and maritime union representatives were especially interested in controlling Chinese and other Asian seamen, who were becoming a larger part of …
Making Photography Matter
Photographic historians emphasize the importance of the production, circulation, and reception of photographs. However, as Cara A. Finnegan notes, there are very few studies that examine the ways photographs were viewed historically. Visual studies scholars discuss what “we” see in an image, but this “we” is more often the historian than the historical viewer (p. 6). Finnegan's study ably addresses this problem by analyzing the “rhetorical traces…
Debating the Racial Turn in U.S. Ethnic and Immigration History
This is the accepted version of an article published in Journal of American Ethnic History. The publisher's version of the article can be found here: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.36.2.0040
Shanghaied on the streets of Hoboken
Although largely overlooked in both maritime and immigration histories, the regulation of sailors has been linked to Chinese exclusion and immigration restriction since these laws were first introduced in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Restrictionists in Congress, immigration officials and maritime union representatives were especially interested in controlling Chinese and other Asian seamen, who were becoming a larger part of …
Shanghaied on the streets of Hoboken
Although largely overlooked in both maritime and immigration histories, the regulation of sailors has been linked to Chinese exclusion and immigration restriction since these laws were first introduced in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Restrictionists in Congress, immigration officials and maritime union representatives were especially interested in controlling Chinese and other Asian seamen, who were becoming a larger part of …
Debating the Racial Turn in U.S. Ethnic and Immigration History
This is the accepted version of an article published in Journal of American Ethnic History. The publisher's version of the article can be found here: 10.5406/jamerethnhist.36.2.0040
Making Photography Matter
Photographic historians emphasize the importance of the production, circulation, and reception of photographs. However, as Cara A. Finnegan notes, there are very few studies that examine the ways photographs were viewed historically. Visual studies scholars discuss what “we” see in an image, but this “we” is more often the historian than the historical viewer (p. 6). Finnegan's study ably addresses this problem by analyzing the “rhetorical traces…
New York Has a Concentration Camp of Its Own
Although it has been overlooked in histories of both Ellis Island and Japanese American wartime confinement, Ellis Island was not only an immigration station but also a World War II "enemy alien" internment camp. Japanese New Yorkers varied in their responses to detention at Ellis Island, but they shared experiences of being separated from their families, confined in close quarters, and questioned about their loyalty. These experiences created co…
From Confinement to Containment
Wong Kim Ark 's children
This paper argues that the pairings of citizenship and immigration, territory and mobility – pairings often considered distinct to or even opposite of one another – are critically interconnected. These links are particularly visible in the experiences of Chinese-born children of U.S.-born fathers. These children secured jus sanguinis birthright citizenship from their fathers, fathers who secured jus soli birthright citizenship under the Wong Kim …
The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark
Birthright citizenship, as a common law principle, was a cornerstone of the American Republic at its founding. 1 Like many “universal” rights at the time, it was presumed to apply to white people, routinely denied to enslaved people, and deeply contested for free people of color. After the Civil War, amid the effort to rebuild a fractured Union and answer the decades-long Black freedom struggle, Congress sought to affirm and extend the principle …
Documenting Birthright Citizenship under Chinese Exclusion
Following the Wong Kim Ark decision in 1898, ethnic Chinese, other Asians, and almost all individuals born on U.S. soil secured the right to jus soli birthright citizenship. They could not, however, secure recognition of their citizenship without documentation, the key that linked birth to birthright. At a time when birth registration was not common, ethnic Chinese were able to establish U.S. citizenship in two main ways: through an order by a U.…
William Gee Wong. Sons of Chinatown
Immigration (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Citizenship (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (2 works)