Raised as a servant girl, Lai Ngan grew up to become a cigar maker, own a boarding house, and run grocery stores in the American Southwest.

With the emergence of the US as a global superpower in the twentieth-century, anti-Palestinian stereotypes in the media bled over to stigmatize Arab Americans.

Despite the historical gulf between canonical and recent immigrant writing, one constant is the mark that new immigrant artists leave on US literature.

Before 1945, many Vietnamese migrants to the United States were laborers. One was Ho Chi Minh.

Recycling has always been something most people would prefer to keep at arm's length.

A comparison between immigration policies in the 1890s and today.