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THE MAKING OF ASIAN AMERICA
By: Erika Lee
A History
Simon & Schuster
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
530 pages
ISBN: 1476739404
EAN: 9781476739403
Kindle: B00P434BMQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nationβs 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 βcooliesβ 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 βdespised minority,β Asian Americans are now held up as Americaβs βmodel minoritiesβ 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 Statesβ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our βnation of immigrants,β 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.
 Media BuzzMorning Edition - October 15, 2015
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