The Michigan Colloquium on
Race and Twentieth-Century American Political
Development presents the
fifth of eight public lectures:
PROFESSOR MAE M. NGAI
Assistant Professor of
History
University of Chicago
"IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS:
ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA"
Thursday, February 5, 2004,
4:00-5:30 p.m., Angell Hall Aud. B
Mae Ngai teaches at the
University of Chicago, and is the author of a new
book published by Princeton
University Press: IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECTS: ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE MAKING OF MODERN
AMERICA (2004). She received her
Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1998, and is currently spending the academic year
as an American Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard
University. Her talk will focus on
the origins of illegal immigration and the reshaping of the relationship
between race and citizenship in modern America.
The program of the Colloquium
is made possible by the generous financial support of the Office of the Vice
President for Research and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, as
well as the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies; the Center for Local,
State, and Urban Policy; the College of Literature, Science, and Arts; the Departments
of History, Political Science, and Sociology; the Gerald R. Ford School of
Public Policy; the National Poverty Center; and the Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning. For additional information, please contact
colloquium organizers Matt Lassiter, Tony Chen, and Robert Mickey at
conveners@umich.