The making of Asian America : a history /

Title:

The making of Asian America : a history /

Author:

Lee, Erika, author.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College, MassArt

Contents:

Part one: Beginnings : Asians in the Americas. Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Part two: 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 -- Part three: 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 -- Part four: 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 -- Part five: twenty-first-century Asian Americans. The "rise of Asian Americans"?: myths and realities -- Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
E184.A75 L43 2015 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
  On reserve for LI209 -1: Asian American Graphic Novels (Literature: Nguyen)

MassArt Main
E184.A75 L43 2015 – Available