Focuses on Los Angeles as a critical 'world city' in the developing global economy and also as the center of new Asian immigration. This work includes discussions of the settlement patterns of various groups of Asians in relation to the social, economic, and political developments in Asia and the United States.
Focuses on Los Angeles as a critical 'world city' in the developing global economy and also as the center of new Asian immigration. This work includes...
A collection of essays that center on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. It emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens.
A collection of essays that center on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. It em...
Deals with the extent to which South Asian Americans are and ought to be included within Asian America as that term is applied to academic programs and admission policies; grassroots community organizing and politics more broadly; and, critical analyses of cultural products.
Deals with the extent to which South Asian Americans are and ought to be included within Asian America as that term is applied to academic programs an...
Challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community's essentially linear process toward assimilation into US society. This title develops a complex and nuanced account of Japanese American life. It shows that a diversity of opinion and debate about effective political strategy characterized each generation of Japanese Americans.
Challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community's essentially linear process toward assimilation into US society. This title develops...
The first biography of an American-born Korean woman, Doing What Had to Be Done is, on the surface, the life story of Dora Yum Kim. But telling more than one woman's story, author Soo-Young Chin offers more than an unusual glimpse at the shaping of a remarkable community activist. In addition as she questions her subject, introduces each chapter, and reflects on how Dora's story relates to her own experience as a Korean-American who immigrated to this country as an adult she carves around Dora's compelling and courageous life story, a story of her own and one of all Korean-Americans. Born in...
The first biography of an American-born Korean woman, Doing What Had to Be Done is, on the surface, the life story of Dora Yum Kim. But telling more t...
The notion that ethnicity is not fixed and inherent, but elastic and constructed, is the basis for this collection of essays. They study a number of ethnic groups in various countries, including Brazil and the US, and examine how their identities have evolved.
The notion that ethnicity is not fixed and inherent, but elastic and constructed, is the basis for this collection of essays. They study a number of e...
No one knows how many Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, but credible estimates put the number at 50,000 arrivals each year. Astonishing as this figure is, it represents only a portion of the Chinese illegally residing in the United States. Smuggled Chinese presents a detailed account of how this traffic is conducted and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain.
When the Golden Venture ran aground off New York's coast in 1993 and ten of the 260 Chinese on board drowned, the public outcry about human smuggling became front-page news. Probing into...
No one knows how many Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, but credible estimates put the number at 50,000 arrivals each year. Astonishi...
In this remarkable memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to this country with false documents during the Exclusion era. Although scholars have pieced together their history, first-person accounts are rare and fragmented; many of the so-called "Paper Sons" lived out their lives in silent fear of discovery. Chin's story speaks for the many Chinese who worked in urban laundries and restaurants, but it also introduces an unusually articulate man's perspective on becoming a Chinese American.
Chin's story begins in the early 1930s, when...
In this remarkable memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to this country with false docum...
Represents the broad spectrum of ethnicities that make up Asian America. This anthology shows the contradictions, influences, imagination, and humanity expressed through the vastly varied creative projects of Americans with Asian roots.
Represents the broad spectrum of ethnicities that make up Asian America. This anthology shows the contradictions, influences, imagination, and humanit...
