The making of Asian America :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 545 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [2021]
Summary
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 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. 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. Originally 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. This edition includes a postscript about the campaigns against Asian Americans in 2021.
Call Number
HISTORY / US / LEE
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781476739410
The making of Asian America :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
viii, 519 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
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"--
Call Number
973.0495 LEE
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781476739403
The making of Asian America :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
13 audio discs (16 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Media Inc., [2015]
Summary
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. The audio book 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.
Call Number
ABK 305.895 LEE
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781494514549 9798200007356 9798200007363
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