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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

A picture on display at the Arizona History Museum of two unidentified Chinese men in 1890. Courtesy of Arizona Historical Society.

The little-known history of Arizona’s Chinese

Zach Pleeter October 29, 2015

One insight struck Chia-Lin Pao Tao when she arrived in Tucson in 1976.She was most surprised by how few Asians she saw along with little, if any, marks of Chinese legacy in the area. Today, she knows...

Rivera-Ashford looks at old newspapers which features articles written about her father. Photo taken by Zachary Pleeter/The Tombstone Epitaph.

A history of Jewish life in Arizona: Struggles and triumph in the desert

Zach Pleeter September 30, 2015

Robin Capin Rivera-Ashford knows how hard it was to grow up Jewish in the Grand Canyon State.“In my generation, I may have been the only one who had a bat mitzvah,” says Rivera-Ashford.She grew up...

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