Great lives from history : Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okihiro, Gary Y.

Contributor:

Okihiro, Gary Y, Contributor.

Series:

Great lives from history Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pacific Islander Americans.

Asian Americans--Biography.

Asian Americans.

Pacific Islander Americans--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Pacific Islander Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1009 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ipswich : Salem Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covers prominent individuals from colonial times through the present, offering a fascinating perspective on Asian and Pacific Islander American history in the United States. Great Lives from History: Asian & Pacific Islander Americans features 567 essays on people from the late eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. The vast majority of the figures included in this set have never been covered in any Great Lives series before. Many of them are household names, famous for their work in such fields as entertainment, sports, civil rights, politics, and literature. Others have received less attention but made important contributions in such fields as education, journalism, business, and science. Their subjects are Asian and Pacific Islander Americans who have undertaken a wide range of endeavors from late colonial times into the twenty-first century-coverage that is essential in any liberal arts curriculum.

Contents:

""Great Lives from History: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans (Volume 1)""; ""Contents""; ""Publisher�s Note""; ""Editor�s Introduction""; ""Key to Pronunciation""; ""Complete List of Contents""; ""Paula Abdul""; ""Tokunosuke Abe""; ""Kyutaro Abiko""; ""Benny Agbayani""; ""Chang-ho Ahn""; ""Philip Ahn""; ""John Aiso""; ""Daniel Akaka""; ""Akebono Taro""; ""Toshiko Akiyoshi""; ""Alfredo Alcala""; ""Meena Alexander""; ""Nadia Ali""; ""Amerie""; ""Guy Aoki""; ""Tsuru Aoki""; ""Alfred Apaka""; ""Apl.de.ap""; ""Clarence Takeya Arai""; ""George Ariyoshi""; ""Jose Espiritu Aruego""

""Ruth Asawa""""Norman Asing""; ""Ramani Ayer""; ""Peter Bacho""; ""Bai Ling""; ""Lynda Barry""; ""David Batista""; ""Anna Bayle""; ""Parminder Bhachu""; ""Mohini Bhardwaj""; ""Sameer Bhattacharya""; ""Raj Bhavsar""; ""Richard Kekuni Blaisdell""; ""Grace Lee Boggs""; ""Amar Bose""; ""Sudhindra Bose""; ""Tedy Bruschi""; ""Carlos Bulosan""; ""Chang and Eng Bunker""; ""Eric Byler""; ""Regie Cabico""; ""Dean Cain""; ""Joseph Cao""; ""Tia Carrere""; ""Cassie""; ""Ben Cayetano""; ""Theresa Hak Kyung Cha""; ""Jorge Cham""; ""Ernie Chan""; ""Johnny Chan""; ""Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar""

""Eileen Chang""""Iris Chang""; ""Kwang-chih Chang""; ""Lan Samantha Chang""; ""Laura Chang""; ""M. C. Chang""; ""Michael Chang""; ""Sarah Chang""; ""Wah Chang""; ""Elaine L. Chao""; ""Rosalind Chao""; ""Kalpana Chawla""; ""Boona Cheema""; ""Joan Chen""; ""John Chen""; ""Julie Chen""; ""Anna Chen Chennault""; ""Tseng Kwong Chi""; ""Chiang Soong Mei-ling""; ""Frank Chin""; ""Marilyn Chin""; ""Vincent Chin""; ""Larry Ching""; ""John Cho""; ""Margaret Cho""; ""Tommy Chong""; ""Deepak Chopra""; ""Chou Wen-chung""; ""Amy Chow""; ""Norm Chow""; ""Judy M. Chu""; ""Louis H. Chu""; ""Steven Chu""

""Amy Chua""""Alfred Chuang""; ""Sam Chu Lin""; ""Connie Chung""; ""Margaret Chung""; ""Myung-whun Chung""; ""Bryan Clay""; ""Michael Copon""; ""Ann Curry""; ""Mark Dacascos""; ""Johnny Damon""; ""Chloe Dao""; ""Ron Darling""; ""Taraknath Das""; ""Toby Dawson""; ""Har Dayal""; ""Melissa de la Cruz""; ""Dianne de Las Casas""; ""Anita Desai""; ""Tanuja Desai Hidier""; ""Tony DeZuniga""; ""Dith Pran""; ""Chitra Divakaruni""; ""Victoria Manalo Draves""; ""Dinesh D�Souza""; ""Tammy Duckworth""; ""Edith Maude Eaton""; ""Winnifred Eaton""; ""Sue Kunitomi Embrey""; ""Mitsuye Endo""; ""Ben Fee""

""Ernest Francisco Fenollosa""""Don Figueroa""; ""Heather Fong""; ""Hiram Fong""; ""Ben Fong-Torres""; ""Mark Foo""; ""Ted Fujita""; ""Glen Fukushima""; ""Francis Fukuyama""; ""Yun Gee""; ""Zulfikar Ghose""; ""Amitav Ghosh""; ""N. V. M. González""; ""Philip Kan Gotanda""; ""Wendy Lee Gramm""; ""Sanjay Gupta""; ""Jessica Hagedorn""; ""Gloria Hahn""; ""Kimiko Hahn""; ""Barney F. Hajiro""; ""Najeeb Halaby""; ""Nikki Haley""; ""Kamala Harris""; ""Sadakichi Hartmann""; ""Teri Hatcher""; ""Kayo Hatta""; ""James Hattori""; ""S. I. Hayakawa""; ""Sessue Hayakawa""; ""Masumi Hayashi""

""Le Ly Hayslip""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613921888

9781587658648

158765864X