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Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
by Helen Zia
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This groundbreaking book traces the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the events... (read more)

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Landmarks of the American Mosaic)
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Landmarks of the American Mosaic)
by John Soennichsen
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a historic act of legislation that demonstrated how the federal government of the United States once openly condoned racial discrimination. Once the Exclusion Act passed, the door was opened to further limitation of... (read more)

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Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans Series #14: Elder Voices
Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans Series #14: Elder Voices
by Daniel F. -. Detzner
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Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.... (read more)

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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of... (read more)

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Asian American Religions (04 Edition)
Asian American Religions (04 Edition)
by Carnes
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Many rivers run through Nancy Schoenberger's third collection of poems, Long Like a River. From the Clark Fork ("its full house of trout the dream of a summer noon"), to the Mississippi ("long as its Indian name"), to the Amazon and Napo Rivers, these... (read more)

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Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (Cross-Cultural Memoir)
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (Cross-Cultural Memoir)
by Shirley Geok Li Lim
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"Lim recounts her journey with a poet's eye for detail and a storyteller's gift for narrative."--Ms.... (read more)

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Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (08 Edition)
Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (08 Edition)
by Carolyn Chen
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What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to... (read more)

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Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship (Studies in Writing & Rhetoric)
Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship (Studies in Writing & Rhetoric)
by Morris Young
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< div> < div> Through a blend of personal narrative, cultural and literary analysis, and discussions about teaching, < i> Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship < /i> shows how people of... (read more)

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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
by Sichan Siv
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While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s, the neighbouring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated... (read more)

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The Persistence of Cambodian Poverty: From the Killing Fields to Today
The Persistence of Cambodian Poverty: From the Killing Fields to Today
by Harold R. Kerbo
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Since the tragedies of the "killing fields" and the reign of the Khmer Rouge, the global community has largely ignored the social issues plaguing Cambodia. Though the infamous killings have largely stopped, poverty and corruption are rampant in... (read more)

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Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies (09 Edition)
Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies (09 Edition)
by Mark Chiang
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In 1789, when George Washington was elected the first president of the United States, laymen from all six Jewish congregations in the new nation sent him congratulatory letters. He replied to all six. Thus, after more than a century of Jewish life in... (read more)

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Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, and Mental Health
Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, and Mental Health
by Laura Uba
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This widely adopted text synthesizes an extensive body of research on Asian American personality development, identity, and mental health. Uba focuses on how ethnocultural factors interact with minority group status to shape the experiences of members of... (read more)

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The Mong Oral Tradition: Cultural Memory in the Absence of Written Language
The Mong Oral Tradition: Cultural Memory in the Absence of Written Language
by Yer J. Thao
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"Explores lives of 13 Mong elders, oral tradition and cultural practices. Discusses Mong rituals, tribal customs, religious beliefs and educational experiences, lifestyle elders maintained in mountains of Laos. They describe childhood, communities... (read more)

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Tensions of Empire
Tensions of Empire
by Kenichi Goto
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Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial rule in Southeast Asia and covering the wartime Japanese empire and its postwar disintegration, Tensions of Empire focuses on the Japanese in Southeast Asia, Indonesians in Japan, and the legacy of... (read more)

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American Crossroads #8: Japanese American Celebration & Conflict: History of Ethnic
American Crossroads #8: Japanese American Celebration & Conflict: History of Ethnic
by Lon Kurashige
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Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what assimilation... (read more)

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Children of the Occupation: Japan's Untold Story (Series in Childhood Studies)
Children of the Occupation: Japan's Untold Story (Series in Childhood Studies)
by Walter Hamilton
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Following World War II, the Allied Powers occupied Japan from 1945 to 1952, leaving a human legacy: thousands of children of Japanese mothers fathered by men from Australia, the United States, New Zealand, India, and Britain. These mixed-race offspring... (read more)

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Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Asian American History & Culture)
Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Asian American History & Culture)
by Robert G Lee
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Sooner or later every Asian American must deal with the question, "Where do you come from?" It is probably the most familiar if least aggressive form of racism. It is a tip off to the persistent notion that people of Asian ancestry are not real Americans,... (read more)

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Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship
Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship
by Kristi Brian
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Until the late twentieth century, the majority of foreign-born children adopted in the United States came from Korea. In the absorbing book Reframing Transracial Adoption, Kristi Brian investigates the power dynamics at work between the white families... (read more)

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Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
Negotiating Ethnicity: Second-Generation South Asian Americans Traverse a Transnational World
by Bandana Purkayastha
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In the continuing debates on the topic of racial and ethnic identity in the United States, there are some that argue that ethnicity is an ascribed reality. To the contrary, others claim that individuals are becoming increasingly active in choosing and... (read more)

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Cultural Compass : Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (00 Edition)
Cultural Compass : Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (00 Edition)
by Martin F. Manalansan
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Cultural Compass re-writes the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethnic and citizen identity, contributors... (read more)

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