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Previews | The Journal of American History, 89.1 | The History Cooperative

Do our own pasts and the ways we imagine them shape the histories we write, or are our lives and our constructions of them mostly irrelevant? Is self-revelation a useful way to acknowledge our standpoints, interests, and assumptions or more often a route to self-indulgence? In the round table "Self and Subject," Richard White, Karen Halttunen, Philip J. Deloria, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, John Demos, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and Michael O'Brien explore the interplay of the stories we tell about our own lives and the stories we write about history.

Erika Lee examines the little-known origins of border enforcement policies along the U.S.-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican borders, tracing them to efforts to exclude Chinese migrants. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act sharply restricted Chinese immigration, turning Canada and Mexico into convenient back doors for illegal immigrants. Framing immigration policy and debates over illegal immigration in a transnational context, Lee shows how Chinese exclusion laid the foundations for racialized understandings of illegal immigration and for twentieth-century nation building.

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