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Upcoming Items of Interest

July 7, Probably 1:30pm - Tentative date for first hearing by County Planning Commission on the development plan for the Santa Margarita Ranch.

July 17, 6:00- 8:00pm - Immigration at the Golden Gate- Book Talk and Signing by Robert Barde, California Historical Society, 678 Mission Street, San Francisco 415-357-1848

Angel Island is both an important piece of American history and a metaphor for the immigration process on the West Coast. To illuminate the many facets of the Chinese immigration experience in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Barde follows the various threads of one Chinese female immigrant’s 20-month detention on Angel Island. Her experience was extraordinary—not only in being the longest known detention at the Immigration Station, but in being connected to so many important events and central characters in immigration through the Golden Gate. Her tale is chillingly relevant to today’s debates over exclusion and detention.

The author is Deputy Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley. With Susan Carter and Richard Sutch, he is author of the “International Migration” chapter for the Millennial Edition of Historical Statistics of the United States. His writings on immigration history include articles for Social Science History and the Journal of the History of Medicine. Before working for UC Berkeley, Barde made documentary films on Africa for educational television in Canada, founded a gallery of modern African art, and earned a black belt in karate. He holds a graduate degree in Political Economy from the University of Toronto. His book, Immigration at the Golden Gate: Passenger Ships, Exclusion, and Angel Island, was published by Praeger/Greenwood in March 2008.

Many of his writings on immigration, African art, and karate are available on his webpage http://staff.haas.berkeley.edu/barde/_public/

This event is sponsored by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Chinese Historical Society of America and the California Historical Society.