Charlotte Brooks
I am a historian of the twentieth-century United States and of the Chinese diaspora. My scholarship spans numerous fields, including immigration, race, Asian American history, politics, and urban history. I received my B.A. from Yale College and my M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. The author of three books and numerous articles, I am a professor of history at Baruch College, CUNY.
I am currently working on two new book-length projects. An American Family: The Moys of New York and Shanghai, is my first piece of narrative non-fiction. It follows the lives of six Chinese American siblings and their spouses during the exclusion era and into the postwar years. The second, Selling America in China, is a scholarly study of the promoters, diplomats, and small businesspeople who sold American products and ideas in and to republican China.
My occasional blog, Asian American History in New York City looks at sites of significance to Asian American history in the five boroughs. Someday, I’ll have time to regularly update it again!
Source: Blogs.baruch.cuny.edu
