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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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 973.0495 L477m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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