The Department of History
Charlotte Brooks
Assistant Professor
20th century U.S., Asian American, urban, race, immigration, politics and policy
Email: Charlotte.Brooks@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: (646) 312-4340
A native of California, Charlotte Brooks earned her B.A. in Chinese history from Yale University and worked in China and Hong Kong after college. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in U.S. history from Northwestern University and taught at the University at Albany, SUNY, before coming to Baruch College.
She is completing the final revisions to her book, Alien Neighbors or Foreign Friends? Asian Americans and Housing in Twentieth-Century Urban California (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Her articles include “In the Twilight Zone Between Black and White: Japanese American Resettlement and Community in Chicago, 1942-1945,” in the Journal of American History (2000), and “Sing Sheng vs. Southwood: Housing, Race, and the Cold War in 1950s California,” originally published in the Pacific Historical Review (2004) and later republished in The Best American History Essays 2006.
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