Dr. Annelise Heinz and the History of Mahjong in the US
October 27 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
How has a game brought together Americans and defined separate ethnic communities? This book tells the first history of mahjong and its meaning in American culture.
Click-click-click. The sound of mahjong tiles connects American expatriates in Shanghai, Jazz Age white Americans, urban Chinese Americans in the 1930s, incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime, Jewish American suburban mothers, and Air Force officers’ wives in the postwar era.
Dr. Heinz is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon, where she teaches courses on women’s history, gender and sexuality, ethnicity and immigration, and consumerism. She has lived in Oregon since 2018, after three years as a faculty member at the University of Texas at Dallas. She earned her doctorate at Stanford University in 2015.
This hybrid event will take place in the Jewish Studies Center, Arnold Hall (Room 100) and via Zoom. Brunch will be served beginning at 9:00 AM.