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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lee, Erika, author.

Contributor:

• ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Asian Americans--History.
• Asian Americans.
• History.
• Asians--United States--History.
• Ethnic relations.
• Emigration and immigration.
• Asians.
• United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
• United States.
• South Asia--Emigration and immigration--History.
• United States--Ethnic relations--History.
• Racism--United States--History.
• Racism.
• United States--Race relations--History.
• Race relations.
• South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 519 pages) : illustrations, map

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-502) and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9781476739427
• 1476739420

Publisher Number:

99984608944

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.