{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"A Conversation with Beth Lew-Williams, Award-Winning Professor and Director of Asian American Studies at Princeton University, and Author of John Doe Chinaman","description":" Welcome to Season 5, Episode 41! Today\u2019s guest is award-winning author Beth Lew-Williams. She\u2019s a Professor of History and the Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at Princeton University. She\u2019s best known for her work on migration, violence, and ethnic studies. She\u2019s also a 2025 winner of the Dan David Prize that honors innovative research on the human past. It\u2019s the largest history prize in the world, and only nine people were awarded it in 2025! Her latest book is John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law is published by Harvard University Press and was released on September 16 of this year (so it\u2019s available now)! We love the angle she takes by examining the laws, policies, and various regulations created by Federal, State, and Local leaders that impacted the Chinese in America. She uncovered thousands of laws and policies across the nation that targeted Chinese migrants. She also tells the stories of the Chinese Americans who refused to accept a conditional place in U.S. life. Lew-Williams previous book was The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America published in 2018 (also by Harvard University Press). In it, she maps the tangled relationships between local racial violence, federal immigration policy, and U.S. imperial ambitions in Asia. The Chinese Must Go won the Ray Allen Billington Prize and the Ellis W. Halley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. John Doe Chinaman isn\u2019t just for academia. It\u2019s for all those who are interested in reading about a part of America that hasn\u2019t been talked about as much. So it\u2019s great for all! If you like what we do, please share, follow, and like us in your podcast directory of choice or on Instagram @AAHistory101. For previous episodes and resources, please visit our site at https:\/\/asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com or our links at http:\/\/castpie.com\/AAHistory101. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, email us at info@aahistory101.com. ","author_name":"Asian American History 101","author_url":"http:\/\/asianamericanhistory101.libsyn.com\/website","html":"