Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: 20th century US, Chinese overseas, Asian American, race, immigration, urban

About Me: Charlotte Brooks is a historian of the twentieth-century United States and the Chinese overseas. She is the author most recently of American Exodus: Second Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949 (University of California Press, 2019), as well as Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (University of Chicago Press, 2009). Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and the Journal of Urban History. She is currently doing research for two different book projects: the first is a study of ordinary Americans in republican China, and the second is a biography of the Moys, a Chinese American family whose members lived in prewar New York City and Shanghai.

Recent Publications: Books

American Exodus: Second Generation Chinese Americans in China, 1901-1949 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)

Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)

Articles and translations

“Numbed with Fear: Chinese Americans and McCarthyism,” PBS/American Experience

“Why China Should Recognize That Dissent Can Be Patriotic,” Washington Post, Oct. 23, 2019

“If We Ban Books for Tackling ‘Racial Issues,’ What Will Be Left?” Chicago Tribune, Aug. 19, 2019

“Immigration to American Cities, 1925–2017,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, June 2018

Translation of “Zhongzu qishi zai jiujinshan!” (racial discrimination in San Francisco!), The Suburb Reader, Second Edition, edited by Becky Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese (New York: Routledge, 2016)

“The Rise and Fall of a Front Group: The National Chinese Welfare Council, 1957-1991,” Chinese America: History and Perspectives 29 (2015)

“Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years,” History Now 42 (Spring 2015)

“The Chinese Third Force in the U.S.: Political Alternatives in Cold War Chinese America,” Journal of American Ethnic History 34:1 (Fall 2014)