The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora
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"Coming at a time when the Indian diaspora is emerging as an important community influencing global changes, this encyclopedia will go a long way towards documenting the various cultures and histories that have gone into its making. It will constitute a standard reference for institutions and individuals in the academy and in public life. A timely and impressive achievement." -- Dipesh Chakrabarty
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
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Great Lives from History: Asian and Pacific Islander Americans features 485 essays about people from the late eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries.
Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia
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Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History
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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day.
Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience
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This work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years. Primary source documents that take readers back in history via first-hand accounts of many events central to understanding Asian American experiences
The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
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This volume "offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the [Asian American studies] simultaneously assessing where Asian American studies came from and what the future holds. The chapters trace Asian American history from the beginning of the migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American continent social and political activism of the late 20th century."
Chinese in the Frontier West
Part of the Series: Ancestors in the Americas
"This film documents the large-scale migration of Chinese to California during the Gold Rush of the 1850s and the central role that these immigrants played in developing the American West by building the first Transcontinental Railroad and transforming California into the breadbasket of the nation."
Coolies, Sailors, Settlers
Part of the Series: Ancestors in the Americas
"Explores how people from the Philippines, China and India first arrived on the shores of North and South America, their survival amid harsh conditions, re-migrations and settlement in the Americas.
The film travels across oceans and centuries of time to trace the globally interlocking story of East and West."
Home from the Eastern Sea: The Story of Asian Immigration to America
"This is the story of the immigration of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos to America. The documentary explores the history of each nationality through the personal stories of representative families."
Last Days in Vietnam
Part of the Series: American Experience, this documentary focuses on the fall of South Vietnam villages in April 1975 and decisions to be made on who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment, or even death.
A People's History of the Hmong
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Over the centuries, the Hmong have called many places home, including China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and most recently France, Australia, and the United States. Their new neighbors, though welcoming, may know little about how they have come to these places or their views on relationships, religion, or art. Now, in A People's History of the Hmong, representative voices offer their community's story, spanning four thousand years to the present day. "This was the life of our Hmong people," remembers Pa Seng Thao, one of many who describe farming villages in the mountains of Laos. Others help us understand the Hmong experience during the Vietnam War, particularly when the U.S. military pulled out of Laos, abandoning thousands of Hmong allies. Readers learn firsthand of the hardships of refugee camps and the challenges of making a home in a foreign country, with a new language and customs. Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, historian Paul Hillmer assembles a compelling history in the words of the people who lived it.
American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders
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A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. Gary Y. Okihiro positions Asians and Pacific Islanders within a larger history of people of color in the United States and places the United States in the context of world history and oceanic worlds.
The Other One Percent: Indians in America
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One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most-educated and highest-income group in the world's most advanced nation.
Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation
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How did thousands of Chinese migrants end up working alongside African Americans in Louisiana after the Civil War? Tracing American ideas of Asian labor to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, Jung examines how coolies appeared in major U.S. political debates on race, labor, and immigration between the 1830s and 1880s.
Diversity in diaspora: Hmong Amerians in the Twenty-first Century
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A selection of essays that provide a historical review of the American experience of the Hmong.
Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
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The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community, Hmong America documents Chia Youyee Vang's own migration from Laos to Minnesota at age nine and the transformations she has witnessed in Hmong communities throughout the migration and settlement processes.
Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America, 1903-2003
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Gathered here are works by some of the best and most eloquent Korean authors in Korea and America, past and present. They tell the dramatic story of Korean culture in America over the last century and of the diverse experiences of Korean Americans today, particularly in Hawai'i.
Suburban Sahibs
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From movie theaters showing the songs and gyrations of "Bollywood" to valedictorians named Patel and Shah, signs are everywhere that Middlesex County, New Jersey is home to one of the largest Indian populations in the world outside India. By tracing the migration of three families, this book delves into how immigration has altered the American suburb, and how the suburb, in turn, has altered the immigrant. In this updated edition, journalist S. Mitra Kalita shows that although the reception from long-time residents has not been entirely welcoming, Indians have come to achieve economic success and their desire for political and social parity continues to grow stronger. She traces the evolution of the suburb from a destination for new arrivals to a launching pad for them. In the late nineteenth century, tourists descended upon Edison to gawk at its Christmas lights displays. Today, thousands of Indians from all over the United States arrive in the same bedroom community to celebrate their own festivals of lights and colors. Suburban Sahibs attempts to answer the question of how and why they arrived, and offers a window into what America has become: a nation of suburbs as well as a nation of immigrants.
Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South
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Extending the understanding of race and ethnicity in the South beyond the prism of black-white relations, this interdisciplinary collection explores the growth, impact, and significance of rapidly growing Asian American populations in the American South.
The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
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Engaging and deeply researched, The Chinatown War above all delivers a riveting story of a dominant American city and the darker side of its early days that offers powerful insights for our own time.
The House on Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream
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Chronicles the early-twentieth century court battle of Jukichi and Ken Harada, Japanese immigrants, to keep their home in Riverside, California, which they purchased in 1915 in the names of their three young American-born children because the California Alien Land Law prohibited immigrants from owning real estate.
Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans
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Driven Out exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the twentieth century, Chinatowns burned across the West as Chinese [people] were violently loaded onto railroad cars or steamers, marched out of town, or killed.
