A New History of Asian America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, 1975-

Contributor:

GIC Course Text Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Local Subjects:

History.

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:

1 Orientalism before Asian America 5

2 The Asian Diaspora in the Pre-Exclusion Years 27

3 Making a Living: The Politics and Economics of Work before the 1930s 63

4 Social Intimacy and Asian American Communities before World War II 95

5 Racism and the Anti-Asian Movements 121

6 Response and Resistance 151

7 Americanization, Modernity, and the Second Generation through the 1930s 175

8 Asian Americans and the Crucible of World War II 207

9 Asian America in the Early Cold War Years 245

10 The Vietnam War, Southeast Asians, and the Transformation of Asian America 269

11 Politics and Activism in Asian America in the 1960s and 1970s 291

12 The Watershed of 1965 and the Remaking of Asian America 315

13 Reckonings: Asian America in the Late Twentieth Century 335.

ISBN:

9780415879545