The Columbia guide to Asian American history

Okihiro, Gary Y. 1945- (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0231115105 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0231115113 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 323 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. 1. Narrative overview -- 1. Narrative history -- 2. Periodization -- Standard periodization-- "Blacks" and "Asians" periodization -- South Asian periodization -- South Asian periodization -- Korean periodization -- Gender periodization -- pt. 2. Historical debates -- Introduction -- 1. Hawai'i's population before European contact -- The standard view -- A vast undercount -- Defending Schmitt -- The uncertainties of projections -- 2. Hawaiians and Captain James Cook -- Structural history -- The myth of Captain Cook -- "Natives" versus anthropologists -- 3. Migration -- Immigration -- Migrant labor -- 4. The anti-Chinese movement -- The California thesis -- Blaming the victim -- A national problem -- Race and class -- Exonerating labor -- 5. America's concentration camps -- Regional pressure groups -- The Army and government -- Exonerating De Witt -- The President -- Hawai'i -- pt. 3. Emerging themes -- Introduction -- 1. Space -- 2. women and gender -- Textbooks -- Methodology -- Theory -- History -- 3. The law -- 4. Japanese American resistance -- The conventional interpretation -- Resistance -- pt. 4. Chronology -- pt. 5. Historiography and resources -- 1. Historiography -- 2. Resources.