One person, missionary EW McDowell, influenced the fate of Syriac Christians ahead of the US Immigration Act of 1924. In this episode, Hannah Roussel interviews James Wolfe about McDowell, whose writings and testimony before Congress opened up the dialectics about the nature of the category “Asiatic.”
Author
Hannah Roussel, James Wolfe, and Paige Newhouse
Contributor
Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2024
Format
Podcast
Funding Source