"Stubborn Twig", originally published in 1994, is a classic American tale of immigrants making their way in a new land. Masuo Yasui arrived in America in 1903 with big dreams and empty pockets. He worked on the railroads, in a cannery, and as a houseboy before settling in Hood River, Oregon, to open a store, raise a large family, and become one of ...
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, the bestselling author of "The Rape of Nanking" tells of a people's search for a better life--the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and to find success.
A leading voice in America's Asian community tackles what it means to be Asian American today.. 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 ...
"Factory Girls" offers a previously untold story about the immense population of unknown women who work countless hours, often in hazardous conditions, to provide the West with material goods.
For undergraduate courses in Sociology of Asian Americans, Introduction to Asian American Studies, or any course focusing on Asian Americans. Combining the rigor of scholarship with the accessibility of journalism, this text examines the contemporary history, culture, and social relationships that form the fundamental issues confronted by Asians ...
The second edition of Unraveling the "Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth" extends Stacey Lee's groundbreaking research on the educational experiences and achievement of Asian American youth. Lee provides a comprehensive update of social science research to reveal the ways in which the larger structures of race and class ...
"Alien Encounters" showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In thirteen essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to video art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans' interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. By a new generation of cultural critics, these essays ...
A testament to the more than 100,000 Korean adoptees who have come to the United States since the 1950s, this collection of oral histories features the stories of nine Korean Americans who were adopted as children and the struggles they've shared as foreigners in their native lands. From their early confrontations with racism and xenophobia to ...
This study of President Roosevelt's 1942 order to intern Japanese-Americans in camps reveals hitherto undisclosed aspects of his administration and character. Robinson explores the evidence that Roosevelt harbored prejudicial views and may have bought into anti-Japanese hysteria of the time.
In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman's strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling. Through the lens of ...
When a restaurant review referred to a Filipino child as a "rambunctious -little monkey," Filipino Americans were outraged. Sparked by this racist incident, "Screaming Monkeys "sets fire to Asian American stereotypes as it -illuminates the diverse and often neglected history and culture within the Asian American diaspora. Poems, essays, paintings, ...
In this study, author Robert G. Lee asserts that the word "oriental" is used by Caucasian Americans to perpetuate the notion that Asian Americans are foreigners, rather than true Americans. In tracing the origins of the label "oriental" and its negative connotations, Lee examines cultural stereotypes that have plagued Asian Americans since the ...
This work confronts the complex question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by studying their communities in seven countries in the Americas. It also considers the special case of the many Latin American Nikkei who have returned to Japan to seek employment.
Based on in-depth interviews with more than 100 Filipinos in San Diego, California, this text investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.
Covers the most recent research on issues facing Asian Americans with respect to personality, ethnic identity, and mental health. Presents a demographic and historical profile of Asian American populations, and discusses cultural values, racism, general family characteristics, and differences in pe
A revolutionary reappraisal of Afro-Asian relationships that will change multiculturalism as we know it In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead, he examines more than five ...
With different histories, cultures, languages, and identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid 1960s, however, these different Asian American groups have come together to promote and protect both their individual ...
In "The Hypersexuality of Race", Celine Parrenas Shimizu draws on her own experiences as a Filapina American filmmaker and as a spectator to urge a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian ...
This groundbreaking volume is among the first to explore the Asian-American experience from a gendered perspective. Yen Le Espiritu documents how the historical and contemporary oppression of Asian-Americans has structured gender relationships among them, and has contributed to the creation of social institutions and systems of meaning.
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