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Manu Karuka

Manu Karuka is author of Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad (University of California Press, 2019) and assistant professor of American Studies at Barnard College.

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And other ways to understand railroad’s significance.

Manu Karuka

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