The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery

Caroline H Yang

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation.... Lees meer

New Worlds, New Lives

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• 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 i... Lees meer

Consuming Citizenship

Lisa Sun-Hee Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenshi... Lees meer

To Save the Children of Korea

Arissa H Oh

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• To Save the Children of Korea is the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Although it has become a commonplace practice... Lees meer

Straitjacket Sexualities

Celine Shimizu

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities ... Lees meer

Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress

Alice Yang Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• This book analyzes how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans during the las... Lees meer

Asian America

Roger Daniels

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the... Lees meer

Envisioning America

Tritia Toyota

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civi... Lees meer

The Global Silicon Valley Home

Shenglin Chang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• 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 t... Lees meer

Across Meridians

Jinqi Ling

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across... Lees meer

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

Karen M Inouye

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during Wor... Lees meer

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• 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 academ... Lees meer

Thinking Its Presence

Dorothy J Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• This book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetry-and of minority poetry-an... Lees meer

Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1943

Yong Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. For those Chinese... Lees meer

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• 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 academ... Lees meer

Mandarin Brazil

Ana Paulina Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• In Mandarin Brazil , Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultur... Lees meer

Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home

Madeline Y Hsu

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from Taishan, a populous coastal county in south China from which, until 196... Lees meer

Beyond the Killing Fields

Usha Welaratna

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• In 1975, after five years of devastation and upheaval caused by civil war, the Cambodian people welcomed the victorious communist Khmer Rouge led by P... Lees meer

Caste and Outcast

Dhan Gopal Mukerji

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• 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 succ... Lees meer

Contentious Spirits

David Yoo

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California.... Lees meer

Japanese Pride, American Prejudice

Izumi Hirobe

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling betwee... Lees meer

Contentious Spirits

David Yoo

• Paperback | Engels | Asian America
• Contentious Spirits explores the role of religion in Korean American history during the first half of the twentieth century in Hawai'i and California.... Lees meer

Imagining the Nation

David Leiwei Li

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• 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... Lees meer

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration

Karen M Inouye

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian America
• The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.S. and Canadian citizens of Japanese descent during Wor... Lees meer