| Edition |
Updated and revised edition, first Back Bay edition. |
| Description |
xv, 591 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-575) and index. |
| Contents |
Confronting "cultural literacy": the redefining of America -- From a different shore: their history bursts with telling -- Overblown with hope: the first wave of Asian immigration -- Gam Saan Haak: the Chinese in nineteenth-century America -- Raising cane: the world of plantation Hawaii -- Ethnic solidarity: the settling of Japanese America -- Ethnic islands: the emergence of urban Chinese America -- Struggling against colonialism: Koreans in America -- "The tide of |
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turbans": Asian Indians in America -- Dollar a day, dime a dance: the forgotten Filipinos -- The watershed of World War II: democracy and race -- "Strangers" at the gates again: post-1965 -- Breaking silences: community of memory -- One-tenth of the nation: Asian Americans in the twenty-first century. |
| Subject |
Asian Americans -- History.
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
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| ISBN |
0316831301 |
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