Asian American History – alle Bücher, Seite 2

K Ian Shin
Imperial Stewards

"From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest a…

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Zhongping Chen
The Transpacific Chinese Diaspora

Zhongping Chen examines the origins, rise, and reform of the Cantonese-dominated Chinese diaspora in Canada between 1788 and 1898. Combining a diasporic approach with both qualitative and quantitative ana…

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Susan Tate Ankeny
American Flygirl

One of WWII's most uniquely hidden figures, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Asian American woman to earn a pilot's license, join the WASPs, and fly for the United States military amid widespread anti-Asian s…

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Scott Miller
Let My Country Awake

"[Miller] plunges into his tale with gusto . . . [Let My Country Awake is] never less than fascinating." -Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal"Propulsive . . . A thrilling excavation …

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Ju Yon Kim
Paper Performance

Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have attempted to manage "suspect" immigrants, colonial subjects, and activists of Asian descent through bureaucratic p…

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot.…

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Adrian de Leon,
Balikbayan

How migrants imagined a country through their acts of return What does it mean to go back home, especially when "home" is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing? This question has animated the e…

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Song Woohye, Woohye Song,
Yun Dong-Ju

Chronicling the life of Korea's "National Poet," Yun Dong-ju (1917-1945), Song WooHye explores the historical and political backgrounds that influenced Yun's development as a poet and a patriot.…

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Helen Raleigh
Not Outsiders

Asian Americans' political activism from the 19th century to today

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Michelle T King
Chop Fry Watch Learn

In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that wo…

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Satsuki Ina
The Poet and the Silk Girl

Now in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice---and how their story echoes across generations. "Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina's…

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Ron Chew
My Unforgotten Seattle

An insider's look at the making of a city's Asian American communityThird-generation Seattleite, historian, journalist, and museum visionary Ron Chew spent more than five decades fighting for Asian Americ…

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Peter Chin, Everett de Morier
In the Ghost Shadows

A never-before-seen glimpse into the rarefied world of the Ghost Shadows, New York's powerful Chinese crime organization of the 1970s and '80s--written by the young leader who ran it: reformed gangster Pe…

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Peter Bacho
Uncle Rico's Encore

A love note to the city and its once vibrant Pinoy communityFrom the 1950s through the 1970s, blue-collar Filipino Americans, or Pinoys, lived a hardscrabble existence. Immigrant parents endured blatant r…

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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Adrienne A Winans
Moving Mountains

Illuminates a transformational event in the development of Asian American and Pacific Islander feminisms In November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the firs…

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Tracy Slater
Together in Manzanar

"A World War II homefront action that many Americans would like to forget." -- Kirkus Reviews"This cinematic and propulsive family saga casts a riveting spotlight on an ignominious episode …

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Natasha S Alford
American Negra

"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, re…

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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