Mae Ngai
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Oct 3, 2026
Kelly Lytle HernándezGUEST
Sure.
Kelly Lytle HernándezGUEST
Well, to say that the US immigration system is racist is not novel, right? Many [laughs] scholars have established this and have been proving it for years, right? So Erica Lee, Mae Ngai, uh, many other people.
Kelly Lytle HernándezGUEST
Um, and so that's not a novel point.
Kelly Lytle HernándezGUEST
What I wanted to do was try to push this general consensus among immigration historians, um, in some new directions.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I mean, I think it's important just to understand that that I see as part of immigration history.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
And there has been, you know, the work of Mae Ngai, the w- there are been, there have been some people who have looked at, right, the economic practices and how people have immigrated and the economics once they are here, right, how they, how they organize their lives.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I'm really talking more to immig- immigration history there.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
But the Bank of United States, which was fascinating to me, um, Milton Friedman talks about it.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I mean, I think it's important just to understand that that I see as part of immigration history.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
And there has been, you know, the work of Mae Ngai, the wor- there are been, there have been some people who have looked at, right, the economic practices and how people have immigrated and the economics once they are here, right? How they, how they organize their lives.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I'm really talking more to immig- immigration history there.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
But the Bank of United States, which was fascinating to me, um, Milton Friedman talks about it.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I mean, I think it's important just to understand that that I see as part of immigration history.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
And there has been, you know, the work of Mae Ngai, the wor- there are been, there have been some people who have looked at, right, the economic practices and how people have immigrated, and the economics once they are here, right? How they, how they organize their lives.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I'm really talking more to immig- immigration history there.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
But the Bank of United States, which was fascinating to me, um, Milton Friedman talks about it.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I mean, I think it's important just to understand that that I see as part of immigration history.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
And there has been, you know, the work of Mae Ngai, the wor- there are been, there have been some people who have looked at, right, the economic practices and how people have immigrated, and the economics once they are here, right, how they, how they organize their lives.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
So I'm really talking more to immi- immigration history there.
Rebecca KobrinGUEST
But the Bank of United States, which was fascinating to me, um, Milton Friedman talks about it.