Prof. Charlotte Brooks 
Department of History
Weissman School of Arts &Sciences
Baruch College
mail: 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. Her first book, Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends:
Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California
(University of Chicago Press), will be published in spring 2009. 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.
She is currently doing research for her second book, which will examine Asian Americans, party politics, and foreign policy between 1945 and 1975.
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