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A New History of Asian America de Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

A New History of Asian America

Autor Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2013
A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America. A robust companion website features additional resources for students, including primary documents, a timeline, links, videos, and an image gallery.
From the building of the transcontinental railroad to the celebrity of Jeremy Lin, people of Asian descent have been involved in and affected by the history of America. A New History of Asian America gives twenty-first-century students a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to this vital history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415879545
ISBN-10: 041587954X
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 23 halftones and Follow Latin America Since Independence
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1: Orientalism before Asian America
Chapter 2: The Asian Diaspora in the Pre-Exclusion Years
Chapter 3: Making a Living: The Politics and Economics of Work before the 1930s
Chapter 4: Social Intimacy and Asian American Communities before World War II
Chapter 5: Racism and the Anti-Asian Movements
Chapter 6: Response and Resistance
Chapter 7: Americanization, Modernity, and thte Second Generation through the 1930s
Chapter 8: Asian Americans and the Crucible of World War II
Chapter 9: Asian America in the Early Cold War Years
Chapter 10: The Vietnam War, Southeast Asians, and the Transformation of Asian America
Chapter 11: Politics and Activism in Asian America in the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 12: The Watershed of 1965 and the Remaking of Asian America
Chapter 13: Reckonings: Asian America in the Late Twentieth Century
Epilogue
Bibliography

Notă biografică

Shelley Sang-Hee Lee is Associate Professor of Comparative American Studies and History at Oberlin College. She is the author of Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America.

Recenzii

"Lee has written an eloquent and comprehensive book that will be the standard text in Asian American history for many years to come."
– K. Scott Wong, author of Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War
"Shelley Lee’s A New History of Asian America is an exciting, well-written, and much-needed new textbook. Synthesizing newer scholarship, this work includes chapters on previously understudied topics. It is ideal for teaching."
– Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity
"From European Orientalism to model minority to racial profiling, A New History of Asian America provides readers a much-needed synthesis of Asian American history from the late eighteenth century to the closing decades of the twentieth century. Truly a book for the twenty-first century!"
– Yen Le Espiritu, author of Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love
"Shelley Lee has woven together foundational texts and newer scholarship to produce a critically engaging and elegant narrative. A New History of Asian America deserves a wide readership and will be especially helpful for instructors and students in ethnic studies, American studies, and United States history."
– David K. Yoo, author of Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945

Descriere

A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America. A robust companion website features additional resources for students, including primary documents, a timeline, links, videos, and an image gallery.
From the building of the transcontinental railroad to the celebrity of Jeremy Lin, people of Asian descent have been involved in and affected by the history of America. A New History of Asian America gives twenty-first-century students a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to this vital history.