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Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton
A Literary Biography
Inbunden, 1995
665 kr
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The eldest daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Edith Maude Eaton was born in the United Kingdom in 1865. Her family moved to Quebec, where she was removed from school at age ten to help support her parents and twelve siblings. In the 1880s and 1890s, Eaton worked as a stenographer, …
Edith and Winnifred Eaton
Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances
Inbunden, 2002
736 kr
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Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English …
Moving Images
Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
Inbunden, 2009
1282 kr
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When the American government began impounding Japanese American citizens after Pearl Harbor, photography became a battleground. The control of the means of representation affected nearly every aspect of the incarceration, from the mug shots criminalizing Japanese Americans to the prohibition of …
Camp Harmony
Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center
Av Louis Fiset
Inbunden, 2009
1282 kr
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This book is the first full portrait of a single assembly center--located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup, outside Seattle--that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to their transfer to a relocation center during World War II. Gathering archival evidence and eyewitness …
Chinese American Transnational Politics
Av Him Mark Lai, Madeline Y. Hsu
Inbunden, 2010
1245 kr
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Born and raised in San Francisco, Lai was trained as an engineer but blazed a trail in the field of Asian American studies. Long before the field had any academic standing, he amassed an unparalleled body of source material on Chinese America and drew on his own transnational heritage and Chinese …
In Pursuit of Gold
Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West
Inbunden, 2011
1282 kr
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Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest. Sue Fawn Chung meticulously recreates the …
Pacific Citizens
Larry and Guyo Tajiri and Japanese American Journalism in the World War II Era
Av Larry S Tajiri, Greg Robinson
Inbunden, 2012
761 kr
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Offering a window into a critical era in Japanese American life, Pacific Citizens collects key writings of Larry S. Tajiri, a multitalented journalist, essayist, and popular culture maven. He and his wife, Guyo, who worked by his side, became leading figures in Nisei political life as the central …
Indian Accents
Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film
Inbunden, 2013
1245 kr
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Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television. Exploring key examples in popular culture ranging from Peter Sellers' portrayal of Hrundi Bakshi in the 1968 film The Party to …
Fighting from a Distance
How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator
Inbunden, 2013
1282 kr
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During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the …
Undercover Asian
Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2014
1245 kr
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In this first book-length study of media images of multiracial Asian Americans, Leilani Nishime traces the codes that alternatively enable and prevent audiences from recognizing the multiracial status of Asian Americans. Nishime's perceptive readings of popular media--movies, television shows, …
Islanders in the Empire
Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i
Inbunden, 2014
726 kr
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In the early 1900s, workers from new U.S. colonies in the Philippines and Puerto Rico held unusual legal status. Denied citizenship, they nonetheless had the right to move freely in and out of U.S. jurisdiction. As a result, Filipinos and Puerto Ricans could seek jobs in the United States and its …
Legitimizing Empire
Filipino American and U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural Critique
Av Faye Caronan
Inbunden, 2015
1282 kr
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When the United States acquired the Philippines and Puerto Rico, it reconciled its status as an empire with its anticolonial roots by claiming that it would altruistically establish democratic institutions in its new colonies. Ever since, Filipino and Puerto Rican artists have challenged promises …
Chinese in the Woods
Logging and Lumbering in the American West
Inbunden, 2015
692 kr
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Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, …
Minor Intimacies of Race
Asian Publics in North America
Inbunden, 2016
1282 kr
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An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well …
Reading Together, Reading Apart
Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
Inbunden, 2016
1432 kr
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Often thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and serves as an expression of a sense of belonging--within the South …
Chino
Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
Inbunden, 2017
1282 kr
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From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their …
Asianfail
Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
Av Eleanor Ty
Inbunden, 2017
1432 kr
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Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are …
Becoming Refugee American
The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
Inbunden, 2017
1282 kr
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Vietnamese refugees fleeing the fall of South Vietnam faced a paradox. The same guilt-ridden America that only reluctantly accepted them expected, and rewarded, expressions of gratitude for their rescue. Meanwhile, their status as refugees-as opposed to willing immigrants-profoundly influenced …
Work of Mothering
Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora
Inbunden, 2017
1245 kr
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Women make up a majority of the Filipino workforce laboring overseas. Their frequent employment in nurturing, maternal jobs--nanny, maid, caretaker, nurse--has found expression in a significant but understudied body of Filipino and Filipino American literature and cinema. Harrod J. Suarez's …
Labor of Care
Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
Av Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Inbunden, 2018
1282 kr
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For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on …
Discriminating Sex
White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"
Av Amy Sueyoshi
Inbunden, 2018
1282 kr
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Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy …
Disrupting Kinship
Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
Inbunden, 2019
1282 kr
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Since the Korean War began, Western families have adopted more than 200,000 Korean children. Two-thirds of these adoptees found homes in the United States. The majority joined white families and in the process forged a new kind of transnational and transracial kinship. Kimberly D. McKee examines …
Queering the Global Filipina Body
Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
Inbunden, 2020
1282 kr
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Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within …
Shadow Traces
Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives
Inbunden, 2022
1282 kr
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Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase …
Lured by the American Dream
Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952-1970
Inbunden, 2022
1282 kr
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Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P. James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino sailors in putting an end to …
Japanese in Latin America
E-bok, 2024
560 kr
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Latin America is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with rich personal histories, Daniel M. Masterson, with the assistance of Sayaka Funada-Classen, presents the first comprehensive study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole. …
Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity
The Nisei Generation in Hawaii
Häftad, 1993
415 kr
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Wartime hysteria over "foreign" ways fueled a movement for Americanization that swept the United States during and after World War I. Eileen H. Tamura examines the forms that hysteria took in Hawai'i, where the Nisei (children of Japanese immigrants) were targets of widespread discrimination.Tamura …
Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings
Häftad, 1995
340 kr
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During an era of extreme Sinophobia, the Eurasian Sui Sin Far (1865-1914) courageously wrote of the Chinese in North America as humorous, tragic, charming, and loving-in short, as human. Her stories sympathetically portrayed a group caught between worlds, inheritors of traditional Chinese values …
Golden Mountain
The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960
Av Easurk Charr
Häftad, 1996
351 kr
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At the age of ten and without his parents, Easurk Charr, a convert to Christianity, came to Hawa'ii in 1904 to earn enough money to acquire an education and return to his native Korea as a medical missionary. The Golden Mountain is Charr's story of his early years in Korea, his migration to Hawai'i …
Race and Politics
Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
Häftad, 1998
345 kr
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Located a mere fifteen minutes from Los Angeles, the San Gabriel Valley is an incubator for California's new ethnic politics. Here, Latinos and Asian Americans are the dominant groups. Politics are Latino-dominated, while a large infusion of Chinese immigrants and capital has made the San Gabriel …
