Suchang Chan donates her collection to U. Minnesota

ANNOUNCING THE SUCHENG CHAN ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Historian and pioneering scholar Sucheng Chan is donating her formidable collection of Asian American Studies-related books and research materials to the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Chan is author or editor of more than fourteen books, including Asian Americans, Hmong Means Free, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, and
Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States.

Prof. Chan will be visiting the University of Minnesota to give a public lecture titled, "Why Asian American Studies Matters," Thursday, April 26, 2007 from 5-7pm. A reception will follow.

DETAILS:
Thursday, April 26th, 5:00-7:00 pm
"Why Asian American Studies Matters"
Sucheng Chan, Professor Emeritus of Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
University and community reception and book signing 120 Andersen Library

PLEASE RSVP FOR THE RECEPTION
To rsvp by email: ihrc@umn.edu
To rsvp by phone: 612-626-5928, Jan Logelin

The event will be held in the Andersen Library, on the West Bank of the U of M campus, near the law school. The sponsor is the Immigration History Research Center. Here is a link to directions and a map: http://www.ihrc.umn.edu/about/visiting.html