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The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
by Iris Chang  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-475) and index....
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Asian American Women & Men
by Yen Le Espiritu Publisher Comments What is the Asian American experience? What role does gender play within that experience? How do race and economics factor in? Asian American Women and Men answers these questions and examines how Asian American culture is shaped by a variety of forces...
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The House of Lim: A Study of a Chinese Family
by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments An account of the many aspects of village life in China....
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Sage Focus Editions #174: Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues
by Pyong Gap Min Synopsis Since the liberalization of the U.S. immigration law of 1965, Asian Americans in general and several Asian ethnic groups in particular have now emerged as significant minority groups. Although this volume examines Asian Americans overall, chapter authors...
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Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans Series #14: Elder Voices
by Daniel F Detzner Publisher Comments 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....
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
by Jean Pfaelzer Publisher Comments 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...
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Bridging Japanese: North American Differences
by William B Gudykunst Synopsis William B. Gudykunst and Tsukasa Nishida] synthesize a mass of information on intercultural communication theory and similarities and differences in communication patterns in the United States and Japan. Numerous excerpts, notes, and about 220...
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Asian American Voices
by Deborah Gill Straub Publisher Comments U·X ·L(r)announces a 2nd edition of its New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book," U·X ·L(r)Asian American Reference Library." Rich with photos and completely revised and updated through 2002, with five new primary source documents and 60...
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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
by Judy Tzu Chun Wu Publisher Comments During World War II, Mom Chung's was "the "place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to express their affection for Dr. Margaret Chung (1889...
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Sexual Naturalization : Asian Americans and Miscegenation (05 Edition)
by Susan Koshy Publisher Comments "This volume makes an important contribution to American studies and race theory, revealing Asian American identity as a key site for understanding the complex significations that determine racial genealogies and sexual boundaries."—Choice “...
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle
by Dorothy Fujita Rony Publisher Comments A rich and clearly written history of the formation of Filipina/o Seattle between WWI and WWII, focusing on the economic and cultural community. Filipinos are the largest Asian-American ethnic group, and this is one of the first historical studies about...
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The Bride Wore Red
by Robbie Clippe Sethi Publisher Comments These thirteen linked stories are framed by the experiences of Sally, an American doctor and Deshi, her Indian husband, whose two cousins follow his example and refect their arranged marriages for American brides....
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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America
by Sichan Siv Publisher Comments 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...
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Legacy To Liberation : Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America (00 Edition)
by Fred W. (ed.) Ho Publisher Comments "Legacy to Liberation" is a groundbreaking anthology which documents & analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building in Asian-America from the 60s to the 90s. Penetrating essays are interwoven with archival photos, artwork...
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Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Asian American History & Culture)
by Robert G Lee Publisher Comments 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,...
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Asian Americans and the Supreme Court: A Documentary History (Documentary Reference Collections)
by Hyung Chan Kim Publisher Comments Covering the past 150 years, this documentary history critiques major Supreme Court decisions on litigations that Asian Americans brought before the Court. Separate sections written by contributing scholars focus on cases pertaining to the question of...
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Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind
by Loung Ung Publisher Comments When Loung Ungcame to America in 1980 as a ten-year-old Cambodian refugee, she had already survived years of hunger, violence, and loss at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, a story she told in her critically acclaimed bestseller, First They Killed My Father....
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Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility
by Christine So Publisher Comments Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and...
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Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil
by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments Masumoto's philosophy about man and nature emerges in this absorbing chronicle of his life--from his search for roots in the internment camps and the rural culture of Japan to the joy he felt passing along his organic farming techniques to his children....
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World Next Door (06 Edition)
by Srikanth Publisher Comments This book grows out of the question, "At this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies, what insights can South Asian American writing offer us about living in the world?" South Asian American literature, with its focus on the...
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