Joan Jensen Asian Indian immigrant research materials

Mandeville Special Collections Library

The UCSD Libraries

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University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California 92093-0175

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Jensen, Joan M.

Title: Joan Jensen Asian Indian immigrant research materials,

Date (inclusive): 1975 - 1988

Extent: 3.10 linear feet (1 archives box, 4 card file boxes, and 5 microfilm boxes)

Abstract: Research materials for PASSAGE FROM INDIA: ASIAN INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORTH AMERICA by Joan Jensen, emerita professor of history from New Mexico State University. Jensen's book looks at Asian Indian immigration to the western United States and Canada; ethnic discrimination; British, British India, United States, and German policy; and the 1914 uprising against British rule in India. The collection contains handwritten and typescript notes for book chapters, card file bibliographies, photocopies of journal articles, and documents on microfilm. The materials are arranged in three series: 1) NOTES, 2) AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDINGS and 3) MICROFILM.

Repository: University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.

La Jolla, California 92093-0175

Collection number: MSS 0585

Language of Material: Collection materials in English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Information

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Preferred Citation

Joan Jensen Asian Indian immigrant research materials, MSS 0585. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.

Publication Rights

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Biography

Joan Maria Jensen was born on December 9, 1934, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of an Italian immigrant father and a first-generation German American mother. She moved to California with her family in 1940 and attended Pasadena Community College and UCLA where she earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in history.

Jensen taught at California Western University, later U.S. International University, in San Diego from 1962-1971. She was a visiting professor at Arizona State University at Tempe and UCLA. From 1976 until 1992, Jensen taught history at New Mexico State University where she also directed the Women's Studies program.

Jensen's research interests include the study of feminism, women's history, multiculturalism, individuals from underrepresented communities, and multiethnicity. Her essay entitled "The Gentle Tamers Revisited: New Approaches to the History of Women in the American West," published in PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, won the Coalition for Western Women's History prize for outstanding scholarship on gender and the experiences of women in the American West.

Jensen became professor emerita from New Mexico State University in 1992.

Scope and Content of Collection

Joan Jensen's research notes on Asian Indians created for her book entitled PASSAGE FROM INDIA: ASIAN INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORTH AMERICA (1988). Materials include handwritten notes, card file bibliographies, photocopied source articles, and microfilms of immigration and naturalization documents and other related research documents. The materials are arranged in three series: 1) NOTES, 2) AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDINGS, and 3) MICROFILM.

SERIES 1: NOTES

The bulk of the NOTES series contains manuscript and typescript notes on half page paper and arranged by chapter. Each group contains a bibliographic citation for the source and notes from numbered pages. The series begins with Jensen's general biblography and her specific bibliography containing sources for her book. Also included are loose-leaf notebook pages of photocopied journal articles and Jensen's notes arranged by chapter and an audio cassette tape of an interview, mostly in Punjabi.

SERIES 2: AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDINGS

The AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDINGS series contains a 60 minute, audio cassette tape interview with Tuly Singh. Most of tape is in Punjabi with little translation.

SERIES 3: MICROFILM

The MICROFILM series contains documents relative to Joan Jensen's research of immigration and relocation of East Indians pre- and post-World War I. The series is arranged in four subseries: A) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), B) University of Michigan, C) Public Archives of Canada, and D) Dissertations.

A) Included in the microfilm from NARA are records of the German Foreign Ministry captured by the British during World War I and held in the United Kingdom at Whaddon Hall. During the 1950s, the American Historical Association sponsored a microfilming project to film the archive. Also included is a microfilm of the typescript catalogue by the AHA listing documents and the different locations of ministry records, including the University of Michigan. Other record groups represented include U.S. State Department records.

B) The University of Michigan microfilm reels contain German policy records held at that institution.

C) A single reel from the Canadian Governor General's office.

D) The Dissertations subseries contains miscellaneous doctoral dissertations on Asian Indian immigration.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Jensen, Joan M. -- Archives

East Indian Americans -- History

East Indian Americans -- Canada -- History

Alien labor, East Indian -- United States -- History

Alien labor, East Indian -- Canada -- History

India -- Emigration and immigration

United States -- Race relations

Canada -- Race relations

Contributors

Jensen, Joan. -- Passage from India: Asian Indian immigrants in North America

NOTES

box 1, folder 1

General history bibliography

Note

Card file.

box 2, folder 1

Bibliography for PASSAGE FROM INDIA.

Note

Card file.

box 3, folder 1

Prologue - Passage from India - Notes

box 3, folder 2

Chapter 1 - By Ship, by Train, by Dusty Road: The New Immigrants - Notes

box 3, folder 3

Chapter 2 - The White Man's Last Frontier: Expulsions - Notes

box 3, folder 4

Chapter 3 - White Canada Forever: Canadian Exclusion - Notes

box 3, folder 5

Chapter 4 - The White Man's Burden: Diplomacy - Notes

box 3, folder 6

Chapter 5 - Sahib North: Executive Restriction - Notes

box 3, folder 7

Chapter 6 - KOMAGATA MARU: Challenging Exclusion - Notes

box 3, folder 8

Chapter 7 - The Wrong Side of a Red Line: Legislative Exclusion - Notes

box 3, folder 9

Chapter 8 - Student and Spies: Surveillance - Notes

box 3, folder 10

Chapter 9 - Germany: India's Hope - Notes

Note

Part 1.

box 4, folder 1

Chapter 9 - Germany: India's Hope - Notes

Note

Part 2.

box 4, folder 2

Chapter 10 - "Hindu Conspiracy": Neutrality Laws - Notes

box 4, folder 3

Chapter 11 - Friends of the Freedom of India: Deportation - Notes

box 4, folder 4

Chapter 12 - Brown Is Not White: Naturalization and the Constitution - Notes

box 4, folder 5

1920s Miscellaneous

box 4, folder 6

1930s

box 4, folder 7

After 1930s

box 4, folder 8

1940 - 1945

box 5, folder 1

Notebook - Prologue - Chapter 7

Note

Includes annotations.

box 5, folder 2

Notebook - Chapters 8 - 9

Note

Includes annotations.

box 5, folder 3

Notebook - Chapter 10

Note

Includes annotations.

AUDIO CASSETTE RECORDINGS

box 5, folder 4

Interview with Tuly Singh 1975

Note

60 minutes.

MICROFILM

National Archives and Records Administration

box 6, folder 1

Catalogue of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1867-1920

Note

Microcopy T322, Roll 1. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P. National Archives Microfilm Publications. Washington: 1959.

box 6, folder 2

German Foreign Ministry Archives - Whaddon Hall 1867 - 1920

Note

Reel 297. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P.

box 6, folder 3

German Foreign Ministry Archives - Whaddon Hall

Note

Post-1914. Reel 392. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P.

box 6, folder 4

German Foreign Ministry Archives - Whaddon Hall

Note

Post-1914. Reel 397. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P.

box 6, folder 5

German Foreign Ministry Archives - Whaddon Hall

Note

Post-1914. Reel 398. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P.

box 6, folder 6

German Foreign Ministry Archives - Whaddon Hall

Note

Post-1914. Reel 399. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P.

box 7, folder 1

German Foreign Ministry Archives - Whaddon Hall

Note

Post-1914. Reel 400. Filmed by the American Historical Association Committee for the Study of the War Documents A.C.P.

box 7, folder 2

Record Group 59. General Records of the Department of State 1968

Note

Selected Documents Relating to Indian Immigration to the United States. Washington: 1968.

box 7, folder 3

Record Group 59. General Records of the Department of State

Note

[Selected files requested by Jensen] Vol. 612, File 8497; Vol. 228, File 2226; Vol. 853, File 13766; Vol. 238, File 2376; Vol. 643, File 8880.

box 7, folder 4

Record Group 60. Records of the Department of Justice. 1917 - 1934

Note

[Selected files requested by Jensen] Classified subject files (40 files); Straight numerical files (11 files); A. Glasser and Other Attorney's File re. Internal Disturbances (21 folders). Also included: Record Group 118. Records of U. S. Attorneys and Marshalls. [Selected files requested by Jensen] U. S. Attorney - Southern District of Alabama, 1917 (1 folder) and U. S. Marshall - Southern Alabama, 1917-1918 (1 folder).

box 7, folder 5

Record Group 60. Department of Justice. File No. 193424, sections 1 and 2

Note

Selected Records Relating to Regulations of the Indian Nationalist Party, 1918-1920.

box 7, folder 6

Record Group 60, 85 and 118, Roll 1. U.S. Department of Justice, INS, and State Attorney 1918 - 1920

Note

Records Relating to the Indian Independence Movement.

box 8, folder 1

Record Group 85. Immigration and Naturalization

Note

[Selected files requested by Jensen] 53640/5; 53854/133-B; 53854/133; 53139/10H; 53108/24; 53139/10B; and 54876/8-A. Also includes Record Group 60. Department of Justice. [Selected files requested by Jensen] 193424/2 and 232390.

box 8, folder 2

U.S. State Department. Records Relating to Political Relations between U.S., India, and Burma 1925 - 1929

box 8, folder 3