Who is an American?
Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law and Asian American Studies, is taking part in a debate hosted by The Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies on September 19, 2006, at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Who Is An American? The Immigration Debate After 9/11, is the second annual Constitution Day celebration organized by the Hauenstein Center for the Grand Valley community. Hing will be joined by Peter Brimelow, a British-American financial journalist and president of the Center for American Unity, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to preserving the historical unity of America into the 21st century, and Linda Chavez, chairperson of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a non-profit public policy research organization.
Hing teaches judicial process, negotiations, public service strategies, and Asian American history, and he directs the law school clinical program. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. His most recent book, Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy, was released in August 2006. His other books include Defining America Through Immigration Policy; Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy; Handling Immigration Cases; and Immigration and the Law A Dictionary. His book, To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation received the award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by the librarians journal Choice.
Hing serves on the board of directors of the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center.
Constitution Day, officially September 17, is set aside each year to celebrate the ratification of the United States Constitution. Constitution Day, a federal holiday since 2004, is recognized on the day that delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the final document in 1787.
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