History Film Forum (2017) -- Day 4: Panel 2: Chinese Exclusion Act (2017): Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu and Martin Gold:
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- Description of Pictures: Screening and Discussion - The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017), Ric Burns and Li-Shin Yu
On May 6th, 1882 – on the eve of the greatest wave of immigration in American history – President Chester A. Arthur signed into law a unique piece of federal legislation, called the Chinese Exclusion Act. Unlike any other law in American history before or since – except for subsequent measures extending it for well more than half a century – the act uniquely singled out by name a single race and nationality for special treatment: making it illegal for Chinese laborers to enter America on pain of imprisonment; for Chinese nationals to become citizens of the United States; and for Chinese immigrants already here to leave the country and re-enter it.
Join a discussion after the film with Burns, Li-Shin Yu, attorney and legal scholar Martin Gold, and NMAH curator Fath David Ruffins.
Among those in the audience was Brian Keane, who composed the score for the documentary, and historian James Loewen.
Panel (left to right): Fath David Ruffins, Martin Gold, Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu, and S. Xavier Carnegie.
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- FFD2_170312_007.JPG: Christopher Wilson
- FFD2_170312_058.JPG: Karen Mittelman, director of the Division of Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
- FFD2_170312_068.JPG: ???
- FFD2_170312_101.JPG: Rik Burns
- FFD2_170312_265.JPG: Li-Shin Yu
- FFD2_170312_283.JPG: Martin Gold
- FFD2_170312_326.JPG: Fath David Ruffins
- FFD2_170312_484.JPG: James Loewen
- FFD2_170312_493.JPG: Fath David Ruffins, Martin Gold, Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu, and S. Xavier Carnegie
- FFD2_170312_511.JPG: Brian Keane (right)
- FFD2_170312_513.JPG: Rik Burns, Sheila Curran Bernard, and ???
- FFD2_170312_516.JPG: Li-Shin Yu, Brian Keane, and Ric Burns
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- Description of Subject Matter: The History Film Forum is the premier film festival focused on history in the United States. A four-day exploration of history on the screen, the Forum brings together experts and audiences to examine the state of both narrative and documentary history film as vehicles for teaching and interpreting history. A collaboration of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Forum is unique in its connection of audiences, historians, filmmakers, journalists, and policy leaders at our National Museum.
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