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Lee, Erika.
Subjects
Asian Americans -- History.
Asians -- United States -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
South Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Lee, Erika.
Asian Americans -- History.
Asians -- United States -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
South Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
United States -- Ethnic relations -- History.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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The
making
of
Asian
America
: a
history
/ Erika Lee.
by
Lee, Erika.
Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Call #:
973.0495 L477m
Subjects
Asian
Americans --
History
.
Asians -- United States --
History
.
Racism -- United States --
History
.
United States -- Emigration and immigration --
History
.
South Asia -- Emigration and immigration --
History
.
United States -- Ethnic relations --
History
.
United States -- Race relations --
History
.
ISBN:
9781476739403 (hc.)
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
viii, 519 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (pages 419-502), Internet addresses and index.
Summary:
"In the past fifty years,
Asian
Americans have helped change the face of
America
and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as historian Erika Lee reminds us,
Asian
Americans also have deep roots in the country. The
Making
of
Asian
America
tells the little-known
history
of
Asian
Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic
history
of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of
Asian
immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade
Asian
American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s; indentured "coolies" who worked alongside African slaves in the Caribbean; and Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South
Asian
immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination,
Asian
exclusion laws, and for Japanese Americans, incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new
Asian
America
has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority,"
Asian
Americans are now held up as
America
's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Erika Lee is the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants who entered the United States through both Angel Island and Ellis Island. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley."--Provided by publisher.
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