Connie Young Yu, Part 4

Connie Young Yu is a historian, archeologist, activist and author on the Chinese experience in America. In this episode, Suzanne Barnett, host of Community Balance, conducts a wide ranging interview of Connie. Topics touched on include Pre-1882 Chinese immigration, archeological excavations at Woolen Mills, Heinlenville and Market street Chinatowns in San Jose, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act including Connie's family's own legal battle against it, and Connie's own activism in preserving the Angel Island Immigration station. Of particular note, in part 4 of this episode Connie answers the question of why is this important to us today.

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Chinese Historical and Cultural Project
http://www.chcp.org/woolen.html Woolen Mills Chinatown
http://www.chcp.org/Ng_Shing_Gung.html Ng Shing Gung Temple, Chinese American Historical Museum
http://www.chcp.org/heinlen.html Heinlenville Chinatown

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
http://www.aiisf.org/

History of San Jose Japantown
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/planning/His...

Kelley Park, San Jose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...

Market Street Chinatown Archaeological Project (Fairmont Hotel, San Jose)
http://marketstreet.stanford.edu/

"Remembering 1882"
http://www.youtube.com/results?search...
http://www.civilrightssuite.org/1882/

Anti-Chinese laws
http://holmes.uchastings.edu/library/...

"Chinatown, San Jose, USA"
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/...

Anti-Chinese imagery from Harpers
http://www.printsoldandrare.com/chine...
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gener...

Edith Heron
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1iX...
http://libguides.sjsu.edu/content.php...
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/data/13030/8...