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The Second Generation

Author : Pyong Gap Min
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759116641

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In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural barriers have a powerful influence on the formation of ethnic identities in a strongly racialized American society. Key factors discussed are the importance of culture and language retention, ethnic attachment, transnational ties, pan-Asian coalitions and friendships, social and geographic mobility, racial domination and racial awareness, life cycle changes, immigrant women's sexuality and gender traditionalism, deviant behavior, and educational and occupational achievement. This book will be a valuable resource in the study of Asian American culture, race, ethnicity and American society.

Trespassers?

Author : Willow Lung-Amam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520293892

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Trespassers? by Willow Lung-Amam Pdf

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Landscapes of Difference -- 1 The New Gold Mountain -- 2 A Quality Education for Whom? -- 3 Mainstreaming the Asian Mall -- 4 That "Monster House" Is My Home -- 5 Charting New Suburban Storylines -- Afterword: Keeping the Dream Alive in Troubled Times -- Appendix: Methods for Revealing Hidden Suburban Narratives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Asian American X

Author : Arar Han,John Y. Hsu,John Hsu
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472068746

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Original writings address the struggles of young Asian Americans to define their identities while growing up in the United States

The Making of Asian America

Author : Erika Lee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476739403

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"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 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated 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. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today"--Jacket.

Asian Americans

Author : Pyong Gap Min
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412905567

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Asian Americans by Pyong Gap Min Pdf

"This is a textbook for undergraduate students studying the Asian American experience and ethnic studies in the fields of Sociology, Political Science, History, and Cultural Studies."--Jacket.

Asian Americans

Author : Association for Asian American Studies. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : 0874220718

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Asian Americans by Association for Asian American Studies. Meeting Pdf

Asian American experiences in the various regions of the United States are compared and contrasted, with attention also given to class, gender, ethnicity, acculturation, perception of self, and generational problems.

History of Asian Americans

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216097105

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History of Asian Americans by Jonathan H. X. Lee Pdf

A comprehensive, compelling, and clearly written title that provides a rich examination of the history of Asians in the United States, covering well-established Asian American groups as well as emerging ones such as the Burmese, Bhutanese, and Tibetan American communities. History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots supplies a concise, easy-to-use, yet comprehensive resource on Asian American history. Chronologically organized, it starts with Chinese immigration to the United States and concludes with coverage of the most recent Asian migrant populations, describing Asian American lives and experiences and documenting them as an essential part of the continuously evolving American experience and mosaic. The book discusses domestic as well as international influencing factors in Asian American history, thereby providing information within a transnational framework. An ideal resource for high school and undergraduate level students as well as general readers interested in learning about the history of Asian Americans, the chapters employ critical racialization and ethnic studies discourses that put Asian and Asian Americans subjects in an insightful comparative perspective. The book also specifically addresses the important roles played by Asian American women across history.

Across the Pacific

Author : Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 156639824X

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Across the Pacific explores in descriptive and critical ways how transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international context of the Pacific Rim. In eight ground-breaking essays, contributors address new meanings and practices of Asian Americans in the global transformation of the post-Civil Rights, post-cold War, postmodern and postcolonial era.

Asian American Histories of the United States

Author : Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807050798

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Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy Pdf

An inclusive and landmark history, emphasizing how essential Asian American experiences are to any understanding of US history Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare. Despite significant Asian American breakthroughs in American politics, arts, and popular culture in the twenty-first century, a profound lack of understanding of Asian American history permeates American culture. Choy traces how anti-Asian violence and its intersection with misogyny and other forms of hatred, the erasure of Asian American experiences and contributions, and Asian American resistance to what has been omitted are prominent themes in Asian American history. This ambitious book is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century.

Asian Americans

Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0805784373

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Asian Americans by Sucheng Chan Pdf

Traces the history of Asian immigration from the California gold rush to Vietnamese boat people, describes patterns of work, social adaptation, and family formation, and explains how they coped with discrimination.

Asian Americans in Dixie

Author : Khyati Y. Joshi,Jigna Desai
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095955

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Asian Americans in Dixie by Khyati Y. Joshi,Jigna Desai Pdf

Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South. Avoiding the usual focus on the East and West Coasts, several essays attend to the nuanced ways in which Asian Americans negotiate the dominant black and white racial binary, while others provoke readers to reconsider the supposed cultural isolation of the region, reintroducing the South within a historical web of global networks across the Caribbean, Pacific, and Atlantic. Contributors are Vivek Bald, Leslie Bow, Amy Brandzel, Daniel Bronstein, Jigna Desai, Jennifer Ho, Khyati Y. Joshi, ChangHwan Kim, Marguerite Nguyen, Purvi Shah, Arthur Sakamoto, Jasmine Tang, Isao Takei, and Roy Vu.

Screening Asian Americans

Author : Peter X. Feng
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813530253

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title "Cover to cover, Screening Asian Americans, a collection of 15 essays, is fabulous."--AsianWeek.com "This scholarly book uses 15 contributors to explore the various images of Asians, many of which have been negative."-Burlington County Times This innovative essay collection explores Asian American cinematic representations historically and socially, on and off screen, as they contribute to the definition of American character. The history of Asian Americans on movie screens, as outlined in Peter X Feng's introduction, provides a context for the individual readings that follow. Asian American cinema is charted in its diversity, ranging across activist, documentary, experimental, and fictional modes, and encompassing a wide range of ethnicities (Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese). Covered in the discussion are filmmakers--Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ang Lee, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Wayne Wang--and films such as The Wedding Banquet, Surname Viet Given Name Nam, and Chan is Missing. Throughout the volume, as Feng explains, the term screening has a twofold meaning-referring to the projection of Asian Americans as cinematic bodies and the screening out of elements connected with these images. In this doubling, film representation can function to define what is American and what is foreign. Asian American filmmaking is one of the fastest growing areas of independent and studio production. This volume is key to understanding the vitality of this new cinema. A volume in the Depth of Field Series, edited by Charles Affron, Mirella Jona Affron, and Robert Lyons Peter X Feng teaches English and women's studies at the University of Delaware.

Global Asian American Popular Cultures

Author : Shilpa Dave,LeiLani Nishime,Tasha Oren
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479837496

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Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints—such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce—have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of “Asian” and “Asian American” are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstream culture shift with technologies and newly mobile sensibilities. Asian American popular culture is also at the crux of global and national trends in media studies, collapsing boundaries and acting as a lens to view the ebbs and flows of transnational influences on global and American cultures. Offering new and critical analyses of popular cultures that account for emerging textual fields, global producers, technologies of distribution, and trans-medial circulation, this ground-breaking collectionexplores the mainstream and the margins of popular culture.

The Politics of Asian Americans

Author : Pei-te Lien,M. Margaret Conway,Janelle Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135952303

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The Politics of Asian Americans by Pei-te Lien,M. Margaret Conway,Janelle Wong Pdf

Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable by showcasing results of the 2000-01 Multi City Asian American Political Survey.

Myth of the Model Minority

Author : Rosalind S. Chou,Joe R. Feagin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317264651

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Myth of the Model Minority by Rosalind S. Chou,Joe R. Feagin Pdf

The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America’s male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the lives of Asian Americans. The text retains all the features of the renowned first edition, which offered the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the “double consciousness” of many Asian Americans—experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America’s highly achieving “model minority.”