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One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays-it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin zombies, and immigrant strivers, and exposes them to scrutiny, empathy, and polemical force. In his celebrated and prescient essay "The Face of Seung-Hui Cho, " Yang explores the deranged logic of the Virginia Tech shooter. In his National Magazine Award-winning "Paper Tigers, " he explores the intersection of Asian values and the American dream, and the inner torment of the child exposed to "tiger mother" parenting. And in his close reading of New York Magazine's popular Sex Diaries, he was among the first critics to take seriously today's Internet-mediated dating lives. Yang catches these ugly trends early because he has felt at various times implicated in them, and he does not exempt himself from his radical honesty. His essays retain the thrill of discovery, the wary eye of the first explorer, and the rueful admission of the first exposed.
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• 1. Introduction.
• 2. Immigration Laws and Their Effects.
• 3. The Chinese: The Early Years.
• 4. The Chinese: After
• 1943.
• 5. The Japanese: The Early Years.
• 6. The Japanese: After
• 1946.
• 7. The Filipinos.
• 8. South Asians: Asian Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis.
• 9. The Koreans.
• 10. The Pacific Islanders.
• 11. The Southeast Asians.
• 12. The Present Status of Asian Americans.
• 13. Adaptation of Asian Americans. Appendix: Census Bureau Information on the Web. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index.
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For courses in Asian American Studies or Race and Ethnic Relations in departments of sociology, history and ethnic studies. This text provides concise coverage of the major Asian American groups from both an historical and socio-cultural perspective.
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• Preface. Introduction.
• 1. An Overview of the Asian American Experience. The History of Asians in America, Timothy P. Fong. Contemporary Asian American Sociodemographic Status, Larry H. Shinagawa.
• 2. Critical Perspectives. Asian American Historiography, Sucheng Chan. Is Yellow Black or White? Gary Y. Okihiro. Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation, Shirley Hune.
• 3. Asian American Communities. The Acculturation Pattern of Orange County's Southeast Asian Refugees, Chor-Swang Ngin. Asian Americans in Enclaves-They Are Not One Community: New Modes of Asian American Settlement, Tom L. Chung. Filipinos Find Home in Daly City, Bert Eljera. Dixie's Global Village, Jeff Yang. Still Bitter After All These Years, Angela E. Oh.
• 4. Education Issues. We Could Shape It: Organizing for Asian Pacific American Student Empowerment, Peter Nein-Chu Kiang. Educating Asian Pacific Americans: Struggles and Progress, Shirley Hune and Kenyon Chan. Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground? Ronald Takaki. Being Different Together in the University Classroom: Multiracial Identity as Transgressive Education, Teresa Kay William, Cynthia L. Nakashima, George Kitahara Kich, and G. Reginald Daniel.
• 5. Employment and Occupation. The Inventing and Reinventing of "Model Minorities": the Cultural Veil Obscuring Structural Sources of Inequality, Deborah Woo. Asian Americans in Public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination, Pan Suk Kim and Gregory B. Lewis. San Francisco Guards Punished for Their Accents: Discrimination Spoken Here, Richard J.P. Cavosara. Immigrant Asian Women in Bay Area Garment Sweatshops: "After Sewing, Laundry, Cleaning, and Cooking, I Have No Breath Left to Sing, " Miriam Ching Louie.
• 6. Popular Culture, Imagery, and Stereotypes. The Rape Fantasy: The Cheat and Broken Blossoms, Gina Marchetti. The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation, James S. Moy. Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck, Jessica Hagedorn. What Hollywood Should Know, Steve Park. A Disappointing "All-American Girl, " William Wong.
• 7. Families, Identities, and Culture. Chinese-America Families, Evelyn Nakano Glenn with Stacey G.H. Yap. Vietnamese American Families, Nazli Kibria. Invisible Americans: An Exploration of Indo-American Quality of Life, Snehendu B. Kar, Kevin Campbell, Armando Jimenez, and Sangeeta R. Gupta. A False and Shattered Peace, Katherine Kam.
• 8. New Asian American Families, Identities, and Culture. Asian American Panethnicity and Intermarriage, Larry H. Shinagawa and Gin Y. Pang. All of the Above, Angelo Ragaza. A Fighter for Gay Rights, Carlos Mendez. Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons, Alice Y. Horn.
• 9. Asian American Political Empowerment. Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and Political Participation of Asian Pacific Immigrants, Paul Ong and Don Nakanishi. Asian Americans and Latinos in San Gabriel Valley, California: Ethnic Political Cooperation and Redistricting, 1990-1992, Leland T. Saito. P.R. Elections in N.Y.C: Effects of Preference Voting on Asian-America Participation, Tito Sinha. Foreign Money Is No Friend of Ours, Ling-chi Wang. Asian-Americans under Glass: Where the Furor over the President's Fundraising Has Gone Awry-and Racist, Phil Tajitsu and Frank Wu. S.F. Rally Spotlights Kao Killing, Bert Eljera.
• 10. Future Directions in Asian American Studies. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences, Lisa Lowe. Postmodern Possibilities: Theoretical and Political Directions for Asian American Studies, Keith Osajima. Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads, Sau-Ling C. Wong. Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America, Dana Y. Takagi. Contributors.
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An anthology for freshman/ sophomore-level introductory Asian American Studies or Ethnic Studies courses taught in Sociology or Asian Studies programs. Authoritative, current, and accessible-yet scholastically rigorous-this anthology of personal stories, timely essays, social science readings, and informative educational resources provides a social, economic, and cultural overview of Asian Americans, relates the experiences of Asian Americans, and explores a variety of contemporary social issues deeply affecting Asian Americans. Designed to encourage students to think critically about social issues facing Asian Americans, it implicitly advances a multi-cultural, comparative, interdisciplinary approach to viewing the Asian American experience, and exposes students to major theoretical perspectives as well as the latest statistical data on Asian Americans.
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• Preface. Introduction: Changing Asian America.
• 1. The History of Asians in America.
• 2. Emerging Communities, Changing Realities.
• 3. The Right to Excel: Asian Americans and Educational Opportunity.
• 4. Workplace Issues: Beyond the Glass Ceilings.
• 5. Anti-Asian Violence: Breaking the Silence.
• 6. Charlie Chan No More: Asian Americans and the Media.
• 7. More Than "Family Values": Asian American Families and Identities.
• 8. The Final Frontier: Asian American Political Empowerment. Conclusion: Coming Full Circle. Bibliography. Index.
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For undergraduate-level courses in Introductory Asian American Studies or any course focusing on Asian Americans. Combining the rigor of scholarship with the accessibility of journalism, this text examines the contemporary history, culture, and social relationships that form the fundamental issues confronted by Asians in America today. Comprehensive, authoritative, yet concise, it focuses on a broad range of issues and features a unique comparative approach that analyzes how race, class, and gender intersect throughout the contemporary Asian American experience.
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• Introduction - Pyong Gap Min An Overview of Asian Americans - Pyong Gap Min Major Issues Relating to Asian American Experiences - Pyong Gap Min Chinese Americans - Morrison G Wong Japanese Americans - Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Filipino Americans - Pauline Agbayani-Siewert and Linda Revilla Asian Indian Americans - Manju Sheth Korean Americans - Pyong Gap Min Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian Americans - Ruben G Rumbaut Future Prospects of Asian Americans - Pyong Gap Min.
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Since 1965, when the immigration law was liberalized, over 200,000 Asians have arrived annually in the United States, increasing their total number to 7.3 million. While focusing on the Asian-American population as a whole, this collection also devotes a number of chapters to the major ethnic groups within that population, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian and Korean. Asian Americans adopts the unique approach of examining the issues, and often obstacles, specific to each group, such as occupational and economic adjustment, intermarriage and settlement patterns. Attention is also given to the impact of migration on traditional customs and values of the groups, as well as their collective impact on the economy, politics, education and culture of the United States.
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This volume provides coverage of all the Asian American groups from an historical and socio-cultural perspective. This edition focuses on intraracial and interracial marriages, and provides new coverage of the increasing aculturalism of Southeast Asian Refugees. It also: considers increased incidents of violence against tourists from Asia; examines redress for Japanese Americans from the US government; summarizes immigration laws and their effects; expands content to reflect development of the 1980s and early 1990s; and includes 1990 census data.
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• Birthday
• Displacement
• Bottles of beaujolais
• Social science
• Pangs of love
• Love on the rocks
• The movers
• Man's hysteria: real and imagined in the twentieth century
• Warming trends
• Disturbing the universe
• Inheritance
• Cold hearted
• Eat, memory.

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family's history of untimely death. First issued in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie's bold storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, disconnected from both American society and their own families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal-informed by their heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or simply a morsel of food. Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes Louie's debut book available again, along with an additional short story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, "Eat, Memory, " in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie's role in shaping contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of Louie's career.
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• Introduction / David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma
• Part I. Migration flows. Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and the American empire / Keith L. Camacho
• Towards a hemispheric Asian American history / Jason Oliver Chang
• South Asian America: histories, cultures, politics / Sunaina Maira
• Asians, native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i: people, place, culture / John P. Rosa
• Southeast Asian Americans / Chia Youyee Vang
• East Asian immigrants / K. Scott Wong
• Asian Canadian history / Henry Yu
• Part II. Time passages. Internment and World War II history / Eiichiro Azuma
• Reconsidering Asian exclusion in the United States / Kornel S. Chang
• Cold War / Madeline Y. Hsu
• Asian American movement / Daryl Joji Maeda
• Part III. Variations on themes. A history of Asian international adoption in the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy
• Confronting the racial state of violence: how Asian American history can reorient the study of race / Moon-Ho Jung
• Theory and history / Lon Kurashige
• Empire and war in Asian American history / Simeon Man
• Queer Asian American historiography / Amy Sueyoshi
• The study of Asian American families / Xiaojian Zhao
• Part IV. Engaging historical fields. Asian American economic and labor history / Sucheng Chan
• Asian Americans, politics, and history / Gordon H. Chang
• Asian American intellectual history / Augusto Espiritu
• Asian American religious history / Helen Jin Kim, Timothy Tseng, and David K. Yoo
• Race, space, and place in Asian American urban history / Scott Kurashige
• From Asia to the United States, around the world, and back again: new directions in Asian American immigration history / Erika Lee
• Public history and Asian Americans / Franklin Odo
• Asian American legal history / Greg Robinson
• Asian American education history / Eileen H. Tamura
• Not adding and stirring: women's, gender, and sexuality history and the transformation of Asian America / Adrienne Ann Winans and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu.

The academic field of Asian American history traces its roots to social movements of the late 1960s, when individuals and communities attempted to expand and challenge the existing frame of United States history to take into account their experiences. There were of course people who had documented and written about Asian Americans in earlier eras, but a recognizable field did not develop until the Asian American movement. The publication of Ronald Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (1989) and Sucheng Chan's Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (1991) signaled a coming of age for the field in which these narratives of the Asian American past synthesized the literature that had been produced to date. These two landmark works reflected the rise of social history, which stressed the agency of individuals and communities. Historians of many immigrant groups challenged the framework of assimilation and highlighted ethnic retentions. The result was a more nuanced understanding of how immigration had shaped the contours of United States history. The attention paid to the sending countries placed immigration history within a transnational context and underscored global processes linked to labor, capital, and empire. As part of these historical developments, scholars working in Asian American history helped unearth buried pasts. The Asian American movement and post-1965 migrations of Asians to the United States sparked classes, programs, and other developments on college campuses that led to students entering graduate school to specialize in Asian American history. While the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and racial exclusion remain the most documented and analyzed dimensions of Asian American history, the body of scholarship produced over the past two decades or so has deepened and broadened the scope of knowledge. Numerous monographs and anthologies have included a greater number of ethnic groups and issues. The influence of cultural studies, transnationalism, regional diversity, and interdisciplinary and comparative frameworks (to name only a few) has added to the richness of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Asian American history. Nevertheless, there remains much work to be done in the field, given the tremendous internal diversity within this umbrella category. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History represents an ideal opportunity to engage in state of the field essays that are historiographically informed, but that provide a platform for historians to think creatively about their areas of research expertise. What kinds of questions and issues remain, how do recent developments in related fields affect the historical treatment of Asian America, and what theoretical and methodological concerns have emerged? These questions are merely suggestive of many more that will be asked through the collection's essays. Given the development of the field, the time is ripe for a volume that simultaneously assesses where the scholarship has been and what the future holds.
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• Chronology of key dates in Asian American history
• Part I: Pre-1965
• Chinese in America
• Japanese in America
• Koreans in America
• Indians in America
• Filipinos in America
• Part II: Post-1965
• Vietnamese in America
• Cambodian and Laotian in America
• New Asian Americans.

History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots supplies a concise, easy-to-use, yet comprehensive resource on Asian American history. Chronologically organized, it starts with Chinese immigration to the United States and concludes with coverage of the most recent Asian migrant populations, describing Asian American lives and experiences and documenting them as an essential part of the continuously evolving American experience and mosaic. The book discusses domestic as well as international influencing factors in Asian American history, thereby providing information within a transnational framework. An ideal resource for high school and undergraduate level students as well as general readers interested in learning about the history of Asian Americans, the chapters employ critical racialization and ethnic studies discourses that put Asian and Asian Americans subjects in an insightful comparative perspective. The book also specifically addresses the important roles played by Asian American women across history.
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