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The Making of Asian America
Erika Lee
A History
Simon & Schuster
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
530 pages
ISBN: 1476739404
EAN: 9781476739403
Kindle: B00P434BMQ
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Non-Fiction History
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the
nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject.
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 award-winning 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.
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.
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