The making of Asian America : a history / Erika Lee.

"The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as award-winning historian Erika Lee reminds...

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Main Author: Lee, Erika (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-502) and index. 
505 0 |a Part I: Beginnings: Asians in the Americas : Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Part II: 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 III: 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 IV: 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 V: Twenty-first-century Asian Americans : The "rise of Asian Americans"?: Myths and realities -- Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century. 
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