Resources

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Borderlands Lesson 1: Chinese Business Advertisements

Example Advertisements and Businesses

> Ad for Ah Nue’s Restaurant and Boarding Hotel from New Mexico

> Chinese Businesses in New Mexico

> Chinese Businesses in El Paso, Texas

> Chinese Businesses in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua

Videos

> Borderland reflecting more on the contributions of Chinese immigrants in El Paso

> “Making a Living" video from the exhibit “From Invisible to Visible"

> Chinese Americans of New Mexico” Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM

Secondary Resources

> How a California archive reconnected a New Mexico family with its Chinese roots

> The Story of Fremont's

Borderlands Lesson 2: El Paso’s Chinatown

Primary Resources

> The Story of Fremont's

Interviews

> Interview with Leigh W. Osborn in 1973

> Interview with Bernardo Villegas from 1977

Videos

> News Report on El Paso’s Chinatown

Secondary Resources

> Early Chinese life in a Southwestern community

> The Origins of El Paso’s Chinese Community By Pamela Murtha

> Borderlands: Chinese Immigrants Helped Build Railroad in El Paso

> El Paso’s Chinese Community, Duke University Migration Memorials Project

> Historical Markers Project: Chinese Settlement

Borderlands Lesson 3: Immigration from China and Anti-Immigration Policies

Primary Source News Articles

> Santa Fe new Mexican (First court case in Las Cruces)

Secondary Resources

> Chinese immigrants trying to avoid the Chinese exclusion laws

> Herlinda Wong Chew: El Paso Trailblazer, by Sarah E.John

> Borderlands: The Chew Legacy: The Story of Herlinda Wong Chew 36

> The First Illegal Aliens

Interviews

> who talk about their families’ immigration history a well as their upbringings

Political Cartoons

>Throwing Down the Ladder by Which They Rose