18 Jun 2025 We Celebrate Immigration
Dr. Eddie Cole, Professor of Education and History at UCLA and author of the multi-prize-winning book The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom, gave the opening plenary at the recent annual meeting of The Association of University Presses, where he focused on being open and sharing experiences, and of the necessity of bravely speaking truth to power. Responding to AUPresses’ subsequent call for titles on immigrant experiences, we are sharing titles both old and new that speak tellingly to the subject. We are pleased to share some of those stories with you and we celebrate the values and perspectives found in these books.
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What That Pig Said to Jesus: On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life by Philip Garrison
Personifies the quiet heroics, quirks, and identity makeovers of two waves of immigrants who settled the interior Northwest.
Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh
Essays exploring the Asian-American immigrant experience and history in the West.
Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences edited by Jessie L. Embry and Brian Q. Cannon
Scholars from multiple disciplines discuss the role of immigration in the American West, in the recent and distant past.
Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations by Pepper Glass
Explores the development and impact of urban reputations in Ogden, Utah.
We Remember, We Celebrate, We Believe / Recuerdo, Celebración, y Esperanza: Latinos in Utah by Armando Solórzano
A bilingual history of Latinos in Utah told through photographs and narrative.
Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havay
This creative memoir tells a coming of age story in a WWII Japanese-American internment camp.
What is your favorite book on immigration?