Asian Relations

A Conversation with Mitchel Wong

Mitchel Wong, MD (he/him)
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Ophthalmology

This conversation took place on November 17, 2023 at the Asian American Resource Center in Austin, TX.

Additional Resources

“1875 Austin Census.” The Smithsonian Learning Lab. June 6, 2024. https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/waves-of-hope-asian-american-history-in-austin/AG3jErTIcbM7fLCJ#r/1404236.

“Early Chinese Families of Austin.” Austin History Center. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d5b65064c16347bc8ad386cf968bc511.

Lee, Erika G. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

“Wong Family.” Austin History Center. https://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/wong-family.

Yung, Judy, Gordon H. Chang, and H. Mark Lai. Chinese American Voices from the Gold Rush to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Asian Relations is a series of conversations recorded in the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) and the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) in Austin, TX. Led by CCI researcher Dr. Allison Kim (she/her), these conversations follow the stories of nine UT students, faculty, staff, and alumni concerning their identification with and connection to the AANHPI communities. This research-based project is conversational in tone, leaning into subjective experience and drawing out the relational moments between individuals.