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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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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