Asian American history
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Asian American history
（Asian American studies today）
Rutgers University Press, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history. Asian American History:
Covers the major and minor Asian American ethnic groups. It presents the myriad and poignant stories of a diverse body of Asian Americans, from illiterate immigrants to influential individuals, within a broad and comparative framework, offering microscopic narratives as well as macroscopic analysis and overviews.
Utilizes both primary and secondary sources, employs data and surveys, and incorporates most recent scholarly discourses.
Attractive and accessible by incorporating voices and illustrations of the contemporaries and by using straightforward language and concise syntax, while maintaining a reasonable level of scholarly depth.
Special features: Each chapter features Significant Events, Sidebars incorporating primary sources or scholarly debates, Review Questions, and Further Readings to aid and enhance student learning experience. Bibliographies, charts, maps, photographs and tables are included.
Written by a preeminent historian with four decades of teaching, research, and publishing experiences in Asian American history, it is the best book on the subject to date.
Table of Contents
Preface ix
PART I Coming to America, 1765-1840s
1 ROOTS OF ASIAN MIGRATION TO AMERICA 2
Cultural Heritage of Asian Migrants 3
Global Context for Asian Migration 10
Asian Context and Patterns of Migration 14
Roots of Asian Migration to America in Historical Perspective 25
2 RESTRICTIONS AND RESISTANCES 28
Racial Prejudice 31
Economic Sanctions 32
Physical Violence 35
Exclusion Laws and Policies 40
The Enforcement of Exclusion Laws 42
Protests against Exclusion and Discrimination 50
Asian Immigration Restrictions and Resistance in Historical Perspective 56
PART II Asian American Experiences, 1840s-1965
3 LABOR 60
Sugar Plantations, Mines, and Railroads 62
Urban Niche Economy 69
Niche in Agriculture 85
Labor in Historical Perspective 88
4 DEFINING HOME AND COMMUNITY 92
Domesticity and Innovative Family Formations 94
Changing Gender Roles 110
The Second-Generation "Dilemma" 113
Ethnic Community Building 116
Asian Immigrant Home and Community in Historical Perspective 125
5 WORLD WAR II: A TURNING POINT 130
Changing Public Mood 132
In Military Services 134
Home Front 137
End of Exclusion 139
Japanese Internment 140
Asian Americans and World War II in Historical Perspective 156
PART III Contemporary Asian Americans, 1965-2020s
6 NEW WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES 162
A More Gender-Balanced Society 164
Effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 169
Southeast Asian Americans 174
Plights and Potentials of Undocumented Immigrants 185
"The Quiet Migration": Transnational Transracial Adoption 194
New Waves of Immigrants in Historical Perspective 200
7 MOVING UPWARD 206
Educational Attainments 207
New Patterns of Employment and Economic Potentials and Constraints 213
Political Incorporation 222
Myth and Reality of "Model Minority" 229
Asian American Upward Mobility in Historical Perspective 232
8 NEW FORMATIONS OF ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 236
Urban Enclaves (1850s) 238
Transnational Urban and Suburban Communities and Cyber Communities (1990s) 254
Asian American Communities in Historical Perspective 264
PART IV The Future of Asian America, 2020s-
9 THEORIZING ASIAN AMERICA: SIGNIFICANT THEORIES AND ISSUES 270
Asian American Movement and the Construction of Pan-Asian Ethnicity 272
Challenges of Asian American Identities in Recent Decades 275
Asian American Panethnicity in Historical Perspective 293
10 THE FUTURE OF ASIAN AMERICA UNDER GLOBALIZATION 298
China Rise / Asian Rise versus the U.S. Decline 298
Importance of Global Collaboration and Various Prescriptions 305
New Trends of Migration and Assimilation under Globalization 307
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Communities 314
Asian Americans under Globalization in Historical Perspective 320
CHRONOLOGY 323
NOTES 333
INDEX 000
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