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Julia Lee, "The Racial Railroad"

The Departments of Asian American Studies and English present

A Lecture by Julia Lee
University of Texas at Austin

The Racial Railroad
Trains and the Making of Chinese American Identity in Frank Chin's Riding the Rails with Chickencoop Slim and Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men

Julia H. Lee is an assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 (New York University Press, 2011). She received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA and is a former University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow.