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Author Lee, Erika, author.

Title The making of Asian America : a history / Erika Lee.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973 LEE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  973.0495 LEE    On Holdshelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.0495 LEE    Check Shelf

Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description viii, 519 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-502) and index.
Contents Pt. I: Beginnings: Asians in the Americas : Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. V: Twenty-first-century Asian Americans : The "rise of Asian Americans"?: Myths and realities -- Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century.
Subject Asian Americans -- History.
Asians -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
South Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
HISTORY -- Social History.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Asian Americans. (OCoLC)fst00818620
Asians. (OCoLC)fst00818693
Emigration and immigration. (OCoLC)fst00908690
Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
South Asia. (OCoLC)fst01244520
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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