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Framework for Immigration : Applications To Asians in the United States (02 Edition)
Framework for Immigration : Applications To Asians in the United States (02 Edition)
by Uma Segal
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Segal analyzes Asian immigration to the U.S., including immigrants' reasons for leaving their countries, their attraction to the U.S., the issues they face in contemporary U.S. society, and the history of public attitudes and policy toward them.... (read more)

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Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race From Seoul To La (08 Edition)
Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race From Seoul To La (08 Edition)
by Nadia Y. Kim
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Asians and Latinos comprise the vast majority of contemporary immigrants to the United States, and their growing presence has complicated America's prevailing White-Black race hierarchy. Imperial Citizens uses a global framework to investigate how Asians... (read more)

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Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
by Frank Wu
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In the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and other public intellectuals who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, law professor, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial... (read more)

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More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith
More Than Serving Tea: Asian American Women on Expectations, Relationships, Leadership and Faith
by Nikki A Toyama
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Asian American women are caught between different worlds. Many grew up sensing that daughters were not as valuable as sons. Family expectations and cultural stereotypes assume that Asian American women can only have certain prescribed roles, as if our... (read more)

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Us, Hawai'i-Born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
Us, Hawai'i-Born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
by Gaku Kinoshita
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This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i. Investigating their plantation stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives... (read more)

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Fault Lines (Cross-Cultural Memoir)
Fault Lines (Cross-Cultural Memoir)
by Meena Alexander
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Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary... (read more)

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Nothing Left in My Hands: The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942
Nothing Left in My Hands: The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942
by Kazuko Nakane
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Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. California History. A respected Japanese American historical text now back in print In 1978, Kazuko Nakane interviewed a number of immigrants from Japan who then lived in California's Pajaro Valley. Originally a... (read more)

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Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation
Monitored Peril: Asian Americans and the Politics of TV Representation
by Darrell Y Hamamoto
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A meticulous work of history, cultural criticism, and political analysis, Monitored Peril illuminates the unstable relationship between the practices of commercial television programs, liberal democratic values, and white supremacist ideology. The book... (read more)

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Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea (Interact Series)
Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to Living and Working in Korea (Interact Series)
by L Robert Kohls
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Perhaps more than any other East Asian country, Korea adheres to the traditional collectivist and Confucian traits of harmony, hierarchy, status and proper behavior. In Learning to Think Korean: A Guide to LIving and Working in Korea, Robert Kohls... (read more)

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Pure Beauty : Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (06 Edition)
Pure Beauty : Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (06 Edition)
by Rebecca Chiyoko King-o'riain
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With a low rate of immigration and a high rate of interracial marriage, Japanese Americans today compose the Asian ethnic group with the largest proportion of mixed-race members. Within Japanese American communities, increased participation by mixed-race... (read more)

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Asian American Elders in Twenty-first.. (09 Edition)
Asian American Elders in Twenty-first.. (09 Edition)
by Mui
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Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older. Most Asian Americans are either first-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States or... (read more)

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Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (American Encounters/Global Interactions)
by Catherine Ceni Choy
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In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need... (read more)

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Rethinking the Asian American Movement (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century)
Rethinking the Asian American Movement (American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century)
by Daryl Joji Maeda
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Although it is one of the least-known social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the Asian American movement drew upon some of the most powerful currents of the era, and had a wide-ranging impact on the political landscape of Asian America, and more... (read more)

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Woman Warrior, China Men (05 Edition)
Woman Warrior, China Men (05 Edition)
by Kingston
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The Everymans Library 100 Essentials brings together a selection of 100 of the bestselling titles from the most extensive and distinguished collectible library of the worlds greatest works. An enduring hardcover library of classic and contemporary works... (read more)

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Private Life Under Socialism : Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (03 Edition)
Private Life Under Socialism : Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village, 1949-1999 (03 Edition)
by Yunxiang Yan
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“The best ethnography of rural China in the 1990s, this important book is about a rarely explored but central dimension of Chinese family life. Yan also places his study of private life directly in the center of classic debates about the character... (read more)

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Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas
Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas
by Wanni W Anderson
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Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and... (read more)

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Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
Sweating Saris: Indian Dance as Transnational Labor
by Priya Srinivasan
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A groundbreaking book that seeks to understand dance as labor, Sweating Saris examines dancers not just as aesthetic bodies but as transnational migrant workers and wage earners who negotiate citizenship and gender issues.      &... (read more)

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China Under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas (05 Edition)
China Under Hu Jintao: Opportunities, Dangers, and Dilemmas (05 Edition)
by Tun-jen Cheng
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The fourth generation of leaders of the People's Republic of China, while benefiting from the prestige of China's entry into the World Trade Organization and the honor of hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, also needs to contemplate the sobering side-effects... (read more)

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The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Diana Meyers Bahr
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An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of... (read more)

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In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Herfamily
In the Absence of Sun: A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Herfamily
by Helie Lee
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A breathtaking true story of a rescue mission undertaken by a young woman and her family in one of the most repressive countries in the world. Helie Lee often had heard her grandmother speak of an uncle, lost decades ago when he was a child during the... (read more)

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