“Strangers in the Land” tells the story of a people who, beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, migrated by the tens of thousands to a distant land they called Gum Shan­ – Gold Mountain. Americans initially welcomed these Chinese arrivals, but, as their numbers grew, horrific episodes of racial terror erupted on the Pacific coast. The history described by the book’s author, Michael Luo, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, is echoed in what millions of working people face in the United States today.