Stand Up and Be Counted

Loyola Law School 919 Albany St, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Join us for a panel and reception to hear about Albert Lum's journey as an attorney and co-founder and first president of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Asssociation.

February 2025 Program

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chinese truck farmers made invaluable agricultural contributions to inland Southern California and created alliances with non-Chinese landlords, but ultimately their visibility on the landscape made them continual targets of race-based exclusion.

A landscape archaeology analysis of Chinese-operated farms around the cities of Riverside and San Bernardino reveals that Chinese truck farming shaped the built environment in both the United States and China.