Mae Ngai
Biographic Data
| ID | 976372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mae Ngai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mae |
| FAMILY NAME | Ngai |
| SIGNATURE | NGAI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reconstruction
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era Mae Ngai (bio) President Abraham Lincoln signed An Act to Prohibit the 'Coolie Trade' by American Citizens in American Vessels into law on February 19, 1862, just a year into the Civil War. The act prohibited American-owned and –operated ships from transporting Chinese subjects "known as coolies" abroad to be "sold ... or to be held to service or labor." Its proponents directly compared the…
Understanding Contemporary Workers' Struggles
I was not one of David's students, though I wanted to be. I had applied to Yale for graduate school and had gone up to New Haven to meet him beforehand. But I didn't get in. Apparently, the admissions committee (which he wasn't on that year) considered it too risky to admit someone who had worked in the labor movement, in light of the union organizing going on among Yale's graduate students and employees. I thought this was ironic because, althou…
Labor and Global Commodities
Conventionally defined, “global commodities” refer to raw materials and basic foodstuffs—sugar, bananas, cotton, coal, bauxite—that are extracted or grown in one area of the world and sold on the world market for industrial or consumer use elsewhere. Labor historians focusing on the point of extraction/production or tracking the production and circulation of specific global commodities have gained insight into the development of global capitalism…
A estranha carreira do imigrante ilegal
A lei Johnson-Reed de Imigração, de 1924, estabeleceu, pela primeira vez, restrições numéricas, tornando a imigração ilegal um problema central na aplicação da legislação sobre imigração nos Estados Unidos. Este artigo examina o advento da imigração ilegal como um fenômeno de massa e o desenvolvimento de políticas legais e administrativas voltadas para identificação, prisão e deportação de estrangeiros, bem como as reformas que habilitaram alguns…
The Politics of Remembering
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The Politics of Remembering
A estranha carreira do imigrante ilegal
A lei Johnson-Reed de Imigração, de 1924, estabeleceu, pela primeira vez, restrições numéricas, tornando a imigração ilegal um problema central na aplicação da legislação sobre imigração nos Estados Unidos. Este artigo examina o advento da imigração ilegal como um fenômeno de massa e o desenvolvimento de políticas legais e administrativas voltadas para identificação, prisão e deportação de estrangeiros, bem como as reformas que habilitaram alguns…
Understanding Contemporary Workers' Struggles
I was not one of David's students, though I wanted to be. I had applied to Yale for graduate school and had gone up to New Haven to meet him beforehand. But I didn't get in. Apparently, the admissions committee (which he wasn't on that year) considered it too risky to admit someone who had worked in the labor movement, in light of the union organizing going on among Yale's graduate students and employees. I thought this was ironic because, althou…
Labor and Global Commodities
Conventionally defined, “global commodities” refer to raw materials and basic foodstuffs—sugar, bananas, cotton, coal, bauxite—that are extracted or grown in one area of the world and sold on the world market for industrial or consumer use elsewhere. Labor historians focusing on the point of extraction/production or tracking the production and circulation of specific global commodities have gained insight into the development of global capitalism…
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era
Comment to Transpacific Connections in the Civil War Era Mae Ngai (bio) President Abraham Lincoln signed An Act to Prohibit the 'Coolie Trade' by American Citizens in American Vessels into law on February 19, 1862, just a year into the Civil War. The act prohibited American-owned and –operated ships from transporting Chinese subjects "known as coolies" abroad to be "sold ... or to be held to service or labor." Its proponents directly compared the…
Reconstruction
Political science (5 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works) · Biology (1 works)