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SUELLEN CHENG - Museum Director and Curator of El Pueblo Historical Monument

Suellen Cheng
Suellen Cheng
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1/5: The Gold Mountain
2/5: Chinese Strike
3/5: About Angel Island
4/5: Early Racial Discrimination
5/5: Los Angeles is Home

A native of China, Suellen Cheng studied under the tutelage of UCLA Historian Gary Nash, whose work influenced a new generation by emphasizing and celebrating the role of minorities and people of color in the larger narrative of American history. Following in his footsteps, as founding curator of the Chinese American Museum and now Museum Director and Curator of El Pueblo Historical Monument, Cheng has spent the last two decades of her career recovering the unrecorded history of early Chinese immigrants to Los Angeles and California. In the following videos, Suellen Cheng describes the first building blocks of the Chinese community in Los Angeles and the community's transition from a city of migrants to the home of longtime residents.

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