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A Conversation with Professor Charlotte Brooks, Award-Winning Educator and Author of the Moys of New York and Shanghai
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- Asian American History 101
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- Mar 30, 2026
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Summary
Welcome to Season 6, Episode 13! Our guest today is Professor Charlotte Brooks a Professor of History at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She's a scholar of race, immigration, and urban history, and has published widely on Asian American history, especially Chinese American and Chinese diaspora history. Her latest book is an epic biography called The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family's Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution (published by University of California Press, 2026). It's a sprawling book that follows the six Moy siblings and their spouses and children through a tumultuous half-century of world war, revolution, and social transformation in the United States and China. They face discrimination, hardship, triumph, and destitution throughout their lives. We love how well researched it is and how it highlights some amazing moments in the Chinese American experience we don't often hear about. In our conversation, Charlotte shares how she got into Asian American and Chinese American History, her research process and good fortune with The Moys of New York and Shanghai, the reasons she believes people should read her latest book, what it means to get the support and encouragement from her peers, and so much more. Charlotte is also the author of three other books. American Exodus: Second Generation Chinese Americans in China 1901-1949 , Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years , Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California . Additionally, Prof. Brooks' articles have also appeared in numerous journals. 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…