Building Community in California: The Chinese American Experience

FAIN: BH-272380-20

Regents of the University of California, Davis (Davis, CA 95618-6153)
Stacey Greer (Project Director: February 2020 to April 2023)
Nancy J. McTygue (Project Director: April 2023 to present)
Robyn M. Rodriguez (Co Project Director: September 2020 to present)

Two one-week workshops for 72 school teachers on the Chinese American experience in California.

The University of California, Davis seeks $189,883 to fund Building Community in California: The Chinese American Experience, a Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop for School Teachers to be held June 27 to July 2 and July 11 to 16, 2021.This program for K-12 teachers, hosted on the UC Davis campus, will highlight the significance of historic sites in Sacramento, Donner Summit, the town of Locke, and San Francisco, California. These spaces frame educators’ understanding of Chinese immigration and Chinese immigrants’ contributions from the Gold Rush era through the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, which have a lasting impact. These two events in American history bookend our study. The Chinese American experience provides an important frame to understand the significance of immigration policy, and the contributions and experiences of those who came to and built community in Northern California.