Please join us online for a research talk by Shinya Yoshida. The presentation, “Between Inter-Minority Relations and Foreign Relations: Italians, Japanese, and Chinese in the San Francisco Bay Area during the Global Crisis, 1929–1941,” takes place on Friday, July 25 at 10 a.m. Central Time.
Register nowExploring the past of ethnic Italians in the San Francisco Bay Area has the potential to enrich the field of Italian American history. Since the 19th century, San Francisco has emerged as the hub of the Italian community on the West Coast. What characterized their local lives was their proximity to Asians, mainly Chinese and Japanese. As their contact increased, global affairs involving their homelands in both the Atlantic and the Pacific began to overshadow their daily experiences. Yoshida’s research examines how foreign relations in the 1930s—marked by the Great Depression and the territorial ambitions of Italy and Japan—intersected (or not) with racial and ethnic relations in the San Francisco Bay Area from the perspective of Italian migrants.
Shinya Yoshida, PhD candidate in History, is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Italian American Immigration Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship.
This event is co-sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota Libraries.
What: Immigration History Research Center event | Between Inter-Minority Relations and Foreign Relations: Italians, Japanese, and Chinese in the San Francisco Bay Area during the Global Crisis, 1929–1941
When: Friday, July 25, 2025 | 10-11 a.m. Central Time
Where: Online event | Fill out the registration form to attend on Zoom
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