Asian American Society: an encyclopedia by
(EBSCO eBook) Published with the Association for Asian American Studies, this encyclopedia provides a thorough introduction to the field of Asian American studies. Examines the social, cultural, psychological, economic, and political dimensions of the Asian American experience. Includes 200 annotated primary documents, organized chronologically, that detail the impact American society has had on reshaping Asian American identities and social structures over time.
The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies by
(Credo eBook) The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies brings together leading scholars and scholarship to capture the state of the field of Asian American Studies, as a generation of researchers have expanded the field with new paradigms and methodological tools.
The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience by
This collection presents Asian American heritage through primary sources -- speeches, diary entries, editorials, advertisements, court opinions, legislation, songs, and poems -- along with expert, concise editorial commentary. Selections from the early 20th century and before treat mostly Chinese and Japanese experience. For the period after 1965, a variety of documents tell the story of South and Southeast Asians' transplantation to a new culture, enabling readers to grapple with such issues as gender relations and sexuality, racial profiling and stereotyping, and diasporic connections to homeland cultures.
Opening the Gates to Asia by
(EBSCO eBook) Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration.
Race, Nation, and Refuge by
(EBSCO eBook) Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century.
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