... citizenship migration California Figure 1. M.E. Pleasant’s palm print, August 1900. Source: Madame Neergard (G.S. Smith), “The Palms of Famous People Ready by Madame Neergard,” The San Francisco Call , 1895–1913. In this article, Pleasant provides an entrée into considering how Black...

... uses this case to illustrate how corruption in migration agencies on both sides of the border allowed migrant smuggling to flourish as a profitable business in the twin border cities of Nogales, Sonora and Nogales, Arizona. Meanwhile, both U.S. officials and coyotes profited from the deportation...

... Tong allows us to examine diasporic history in new and revealing ways. Chee Kung Tong Cantonese diaspora migration sworn brotherhood Hongmen © 2023 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2023 A January 1898 article in the San Francisco Call provided a brief...

.... The special issue includes a preface from Marc S. Rodriguez, this introduction, and articles by Celeste Menchaca, Erika Pérez, and Margie Brown-Coronel. © 2020 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2020 intimacy gender borderlands migration Mexican women Spanish-Mexican...

... 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 R.C. Gorman San Francisco migration queer history Native art nádleehí JORDAN BIRO WALTERS So Let Me Paint Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman and the Artistic, Native, and Queer Subcultures of San Francisco, California...

... (which offers Monrayo’s personal reflections about life as a Filipina in Hawai‘i and California during the 1920s) is less well known. Each of these books highlights a young narrator who is migrating under U.S. empire. Their narratives underscore the protagonists’ constant movement through the U.S. West...

...Elizabeth Sinn This article takes a broad look at the Pacific Ocean in relation to Chinese migration. As trade, consumption and capital flows followed migrants, powerful networks were woven and sustained; in time, the networks fanned across the Pacific from British Columbia along the West Coast...

... in the two Pacific regions after 1900. It argues that transnational and comparative approaches are not in opposition to but complementary to one another in the historical study of prostitution, social reform, and international migration. © 2013 by the Regents of the University of California 2013...

... and Filipino Colonial Migration in Hawai i JOANNA POBLETE The author teaches in the history department at the University of Wyoming. On December 23, 1910, the S.S. Mongolia arrived at the Port of Honolulu with 119 Filipinos aboard. The treatment of these passengers resulted in vigorous debates about Filipino...