Madeline Y. Hsu
AMES, Iowa — An upcoming lecture at Iowa State University will explore U.S. immigration policy and international relations through Chinese American experiences.
Madeline Y. Hsu will present “From Yellow Peril to Model Minority and Back Again: Immigration and Sino-US Foreign Relations” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in the Memorial Union Great Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The event will be livestreamed, and a recording will be available on the Lectures Program website for two weeks following the event.
As a racial minority in the U.S. associated with a major world power and economy halfway around the world, Chinese Americans and their experiences reveal major shifts in U.S. conceptions of democracy and its place in the world. The lecture will explore key values and approaches applied by the U.S. government in managing racial and cultural diversity in its population and how immigration policy interacts with economic and international relations priorities.
Madeline Y. Hsu is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the representative-at-large for the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas.
Hsu served as director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the university for eight years and was previously president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
She was born in Columbia, Missouri, and grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong, frequently visiting her grandparents in Altheimer, Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. and master’s degrees in history from Yale University and her bachelor’s degree in history from Pomona College.
Hsu’s most recent book, “The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority,” received awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association and the Association for Asian American Studies. She also wrote “Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943.”
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty and Staff Association, Asian Student Union, Chinese Faculty and Staff Association, Chinese Students and Scholars Association, and the Committee on Lectures, which is funded by Student Government.
Find more information about ISU lectures online or by calling 515-294-9934.