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Asian America
Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850
Häftad, 1990
472 kr
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In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a …
Asian America
Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850
Inbunden, 2015
1819 kr
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In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early 1980s, Daniels presents a …
Making and Remaking Asian America
Häftad, 1994
396 kr
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In 1882, Congress enacted immigration legislation excluding "idiots," "lunatics," and "Chinese laborers." Eventually, a series of laws restricted the entry of every Asian group, though over a period of decades these laws were repealed one by one. The most dramatic change in immigration law came in …
Righting a Wrong
Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Häftad, 1994
303 kr
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In 1982, a congressional commission concluded that the incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II resulted from racism, war hysteria, and failed political leadership. Against long odds, the commission's recommendation that the U.S. government offer financial redress …
Beyond the Killing Fields
Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America
Häftad, 1994
468 kr
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In 1975, after five years of devastation and upheaval caused by civil war, the Cambodian people welcomed the victorious communist Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot. Once in power, the new regime tightly closed Cambodia to the outside world. Four years later, when the Vietnamese communists invaded Cambodia …
Dear Miye
Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946
Av Mary Kimoto Tomita, Robert G. Lee
Inbunden, 1995
1927 kr
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These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who, along with over 10,000 other Japanese Americans, was stranded in Japan during World War II.
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow
Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
Inbunden, 1997
1927 kr
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This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only comprehensive …
Dear Miye
Letters Home from Japan 1939-1946
Av Mary Kimoto Tomita, Robert G. Lee
Häftad, 1997
468 kr
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These letters tell the story of a young American woman of Japanese descent who, along with over 10,000 other Japanese Americans, was stranded in Japan during World War II.
Imagining the Nation
Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent
Inbunden, 1998
1147 kr
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Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the …
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow
Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
Häftad, 1999
468 kr
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This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only comprehensive …
Japanese Pride, American Prejudice
Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act
Av Izumi Hirobe
Inbunden, 2002
823 kr
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Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s only narrowly failed to achieve its goal: to modify the so-called anti-Japanese exclusion clause …
Imagining the Nation
Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent
Häftad, 2000
378 kr
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Since the 1970's, when Maxine Hong Kingston began publishing her prize-winning books, we have seen an explosive growth in Asian American literature, a literature that has won both popular and critical acclaim. Literary anthologies and critical studies attest to a growing academic interest in the …
Caste and Outcast
Av Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gordon Chang m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
304 kr
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A person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man of letters. As the author of two dozen published volumes of poetry, drama, fiction, social commentary, …
New Worlds, New Lives
Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
Av Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1589 kr
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This ambitious 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: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. It also considers the special case of …
New Worlds, New Lives
Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
Av Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
282 kr
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This ambitious 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: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States. It also considers the special case of …
Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress
Inbunden, 2007
938 kr
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This book analyzes how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans during the last six decades. It compares attempts by government officials, internees, academics, and activists to control interpretations of internment causes and …
Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943
A Trans-Pacific Community
Av Yong Chen
Häftad, 2002
353 kr
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Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. For those Chinese traveling between the Old World and the New, San Francisco was a port of entry and departure. Many Chinese settled there, forming one of the oldest …
Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home
Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943
Häftad, 2000
301 kr
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This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 1965, the majority of Chinese in the United States originated. Drawing creatively on Chinese-language sources such as gazetteers, newspapers, and …
Sexual Naturalization
Asian Americans and Miscegenation
Av Susan Koshy
Inbunden, 2005
1250 kr
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Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial …
Sexual Naturalization
Asian Americans and Miscegenation
Av Susan Koshy
Häftad, 2005
301 kr
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Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial …
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow
Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
Av Daniel Kim
Inbunden, 2005
1438 kr
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This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries …
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow
Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
Av Daniel Kim
Häftad, 2005
346 kr
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This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries …
Five Faces of Exile
The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals
Inbunden, 2005
1350 kr
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Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the …
Five Faces of Exile
The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals
Häftad, 2005
329 kr
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Colonialism and empire have rarely been seen from the perspectives and experiences of the colonized. Five Faces of Exile addresses this gap by exploring a wide range of perspectives on colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial developments. More specifically, it explores American empire in the …
Before Internment
Essays in Prewar Japanese American History
Av Yuji Ichioka, Gordon H. Chang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
814 kr
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This is a collection of the last essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese-American history, who passed away two years ago. The essays focus on Japanese Americans during the interwar years and explore issues such as the nisei (American-born generation) relationship toward Japan, …
Double Agency
Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
Av Tina Chen
Inbunden, 2005
1373 kr
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In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of …
Double Agency
Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
Av Tina Chen
Häftad, 2005
330 kr
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In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of …
Global Silicon Valley Home
Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture
Inbunden, 2005
791 kr
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The economic boom of the 1990s that led to the rapid rise of computer hardware and software companies (on both sides of the Pacific Rim) also led to the rise of a trans-Pacific commuter culture, a culture in which thousands of Taiwanese-born high-tech engineers realized that they could greatly …
Consuming Citizenship
Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Inbunden, 2005
1194 kr
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Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a central role in projecting the American ideology of …
Consuming Citizenship
Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Häftad, 2005
287 kr
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Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a central role in projecting the American ideology of …
