Paper sons

A man stands outside holding a photograph in front of a white sheet

One legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act? Secrecy.

Justice

Photographer Wing Young Huie created a huge portrait exhibit on the outside walls of the History Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grappled not just with his subjects’ family histories, but his own, too.

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