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The Making of Asian America: A History

Erika Lee

How did millions of people from Asia help shape the United States, and why do so many Americans know so little of it?

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Author
Erika Lee

Why read it

  • You will see that Asian Americans are many peoples with different histories, not one group
  • You will understand how laws and public fear, from anti Chinese campaigns to wartime incarceration, shaped who could belong
  • You will learn why the model minority label hides both real hardship and the experience of being treated as an outsider

Who it is for

  • A reader whose family history includes migration from Asia
  • A teacher who needs more than one chapter on Asian American history
  • Someone who wants context for hate crimes against Asian Americans

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. PART ONE
  3. Beginnings: Asians in the Americas
  4. Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in Early America
  5. Coolies
  6. PART TWO
  7. The Making of Asian America During the Age of Mass Migration and Asian Exclusion
  8. Chinese Immigrants in Search of Gold Mountain
  9. “The Chinese Must Go!”: The Anti-Chinese Movement
  10. Japanese Immigrants and the “Yellow Peril”
  11. “We Must Struggle in Exile”: Korean Immigrants
  12. South Asian Immigrants and the “Hindu Invasion”
  13. “We Have Heard Much of America”: Filipinos in the U.S. Empire
  14. Border Crossings and Border Enforcement: Undocumented Asian Immigration
  15. PART THREE
  16. Asian America in a World at War
  17. “Military Necessity”: The Uprooting of Japanese Americans During World War II
  18. “Grave Injustices”: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II
  19. Good War, Cold War
  20. PART FOUR
  21. Remaking Asian America in a Globalized World
  22. Making a New Asian America Through Immigration and Activism
  23. In Search of Refuge: Southeast Asians in the United States
  24. Making a New Home: Hmong Refugees and Hmong Americans
  25. Transnational Immigrants and Global Americans
  26. PART FIVE
  27. Twenty-first-Century Asian Americans
  28. The “Rise of Asian Americans”? Myths and Realities
  29. Epilogue: Redefining America in the Twenty-first Century
  30. Bibliographic Essay
  31. About Erika Lee

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