A new history of Asian America / Shelley Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans.

History.

Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Asian Americans--Politics and government.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America. A robust companion website features additional resources for students, including primary documents, a timeline, links, videos, and an image gallery. From the building of the transcontinental railroad to the celebrity of Jeremy Lin, people of Asian descent have been involved in and affected by the history of America. A New History of Asian America gives twenty-first-century students a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to this vital history. Book jacket.

Contents:

Orientalism before Asian America

The Asian diaspora in the pre-exclusion years

Making a living : the politics and economics of work before the 1930s

Social intimacy and Asian American communities before World War II

Racism and the anti-Asian movements

Response and resistance

Americanization, modernity, and the second generation through the 1930s

Asian Americans and the crucible of World War II

Asian America in the early cold war years

The Vietnam War, Southeast Asians, and the transformation of Asian America

Politics and activism in Asian America in the 1960s and 1970s

The watershed of 1965 and the remaking of Asian America

Reckonings : Asian America in the late twentieth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415879538

0415879531

9780415879545

041587954X

OCLC:

712124145