Diego Javier Luis

Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University, MA

Diego Javier Luis is assistant professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He is the author of The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2024).

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Written by Diego Javier Luis

Historic nautical map depicting the Pacific Ocean with detailed coastlines, islands, and ships sailing in the sea, surrounded by navigation lines.

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Demography and migration

Asians in early America

Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru

Diego Javier Luis