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ISBN 10: 1476739412
ISBN 13: 978-1476739410
Author: Erika Lee
A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.
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 much of their long history has been forgotten. “In her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States” (Huffington Post).
The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated 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. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both “despised minorities” and “model minorities,” revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country.
Published fifty years after the passage of the United States’ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these “powerful Asian American stories…are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdue” (Los Angeles Times). But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an “epic and eye-opening” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
The Making of Asian America A History 1st Table of contents:
Part One: Beginnings: Asians in the Americas
Chapter 1: ‘Los Chinos’ in New Spain and Asians in Early America
Chapter 2: Coolies
Part Two: The Making of Asian America During the Age of Mass Migration and Asian Exclusion
Chapter 3: Chinese Immigrants in Search of Gold Mountain
Chapter 4: “The Chinese Must Go!”: The Anti-Chinese Movement
Chapter 5: Japanese Immigrants and the “Yellow Peril”
Chapter 6: “We Must Struggle in Exile”: Korean Immigrants
Chapter 7: South Asian Immigrants and the “Hindu Invasion”
Chapter 8: “We Have Heard Much of America”: Filipinos in the U.S. Empire
Chapter 9: Border Crossings and Border Enforcement: Undocumented Asian Immigration
Part Three: Asian America in a World at War
Chapter 10: “Military Necessity”: The Uprooting of Japanese Americans During World War II
Chapter 11: “Grave Injustices”: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
Chapter 12: Good War, Cold War
Part Four: Remaking Asian America in a Globalized World
Chapter 13: Making a New Asian America Through Immigration and Activism
Chapter 14: In Search of Refuge: Southeast Asians in the United States
Chapter 15: Making a New Home: Hmong Refugees and Hmong Americans
Chapter 16: Transnational Immigrants and Global Americans
Part Five: Twenty-first-Century Asian Americans
Chapter 17: The “Rise of Asian Americans”? Myths and Realities
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