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The making of Asian America : a history, Erika Lee

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"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s; indentured "coolies" who worked alongside African slaves in the Caribbean; and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, Asian exclusion laws, and for Japanese Americans, incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today."--Publisher information
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
viii, 519 pages
Contents
  • Part I: Beginnings: Asians in the Americas : Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies
  • Part II: The making of Asian America during the age of mass migration and Asian exclusion : Chinese immigrants in search of Gold Mountain ; "The Chinese must go!": the anti-Chinese movement ; Japanese immigrants and the "yellow peril" ; "We must struggle in exile": Korean immigrants ; South Asian immigrants and the "Hindu invasion" ; "We have heard much of America": Filipinos in the U.S. empire ; Border crossings and border enforcement: undocumented Asian immigration
  • Part III: Asian America in a world at war : "Military necessity": the uprooting of Japanese Americans during World War II ; "Grave injustices": the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II ; Good war, Cold War
  • Part IV: Remaking Asian America in a globalized world : Making a new Asian America through immigration and activism ; In search of refuge: Southeast Asians in the United States ; Making a new home: Hmong refugees and Hmong Americans ; Transnational immigrants and global Americans
  • Part V: Twenty-first-century Asian Americans : The "rise of Asian Americans"?: Myths and realities
  • Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century
Isbn
9781476739403
Instance
Label
The making of Asian America : a history
Title
The making of Asian America
Title remainder
a history
Statement of responsibility
Erika Lee
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s; indentured "coolies" who worked alongside African slaves in the Caribbean; and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, Asian exclusion laws, and for Japanese Americans, incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today."--Publisher information
Awards note
Asian/Pacific American Award for Adult Non-Fiction, 2016
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Lee, Erika
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Asian Americans
  • Asians
  • United States
  • South Asia
  • United States
  • Racism against Asians
  • United States
  • South Asia
  • United States
  • Américains d'origine asiatique
  • Asiatiques
  • États-Unis
  • États-Unis
  • HISTORY
  • HISTORY
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Asian Americans
  • Asians
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Ethnic relations
  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • South Asia
  • United States
  • Racism
  • Asian Americans
  • Asians
  • United States
  • South Asia
  • United States
  • United States
  • South Asia
Label
The making of Asian America : a history, Erika Lee
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-502) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I: Beginnings: Asians in the Americas : Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Part II: The making of Asian America during the age of mass migration and Asian exclusion : Chinese immigrants in search of Gold Mountain ; "The Chinese must go!": the anti-Chinese movement ; Japanese immigrants and the "yellow peril" ; "We must struggle in exile": Korean immigrants ; South Asian immigrants and the "Hindu invasion" ; "We have heard much of America": Filipinos in the U.S. empire ; Border crossings and border enforcement: undocumented Asian immigration -- Part III: Asian America in a world at war : "Military necessity": the uprooting of Japanese Americans during World War II ; "Grave injustices": the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II ; Good war, Cold War -- Part IV: Remaking Asian America in a globalized world : Making a new Asian America through immigration and activism ; In search of refuge: Southeast Asians in the United States ; Making a new home: Hmong refugees and Hmong Americans ; Transnational immigrants and global Americans -- Part V: Twenty-first-century Asian Americans : The "rise of Asian Americans"?: Myths and realities -- Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century
Control code
894746854
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
viii, 519 pages
Isbn
9781476739403
Lccn
2015010372
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
Other physical details
illustrations, map
System control number
(OCoLC)894746854
Label
The making of Asian America : a history, Erika Lee
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-502) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I: Beginnings: Asians in the Americas : Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Part II: The making of Asian America during the age of mass migration and Asian exclusion : Chinese immigrants in search of Gold Mountain ; "The Chinese must go!": the anti-Chinese movement ; Japanese immigrants and the "yellow peril" ; "We must struggle in exile": Korean immigrants ; South Asian immigrants and the "Hindu invasion" ; "We have heard much of America": Filipinos in the U.S. empire ; Border crossings and border enforcement: undocumented Asian immigration -- Part III: Asian America in a world at war : "Military necessity": the uprooting of Japanese Americans during World War II ; "Grave injustices": the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II ; Good war, Cold War -- Part IV: Remaking Asian America in a globalized world : Making a new Asian America through immigration and activism ; In search of refuge: Southeast Asians in the United States ; Making a new home: Hmong refugees and Hmong Americans ; Transnational immigrants and global Americans -- Part V: Twenty-first-century Asian Americans : The "rise of Asian Americans"?: Myths and realities -- Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century
Control code
894746854
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Extent
viii, 519 pages
Isbn
9781476739403
Lccn
2015010372
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
Other physical details
illustrations, map
System control number
(OCoLC)894746854

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