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ISBN: 9798200007356
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ISBN: 9798200007370
Runtime: | 15.86 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States. From the sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, and from the Asian exclusion laws of the nineteenth century to Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.
Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Epic and eye-opening.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Full of fascinating stories about immigrants who left a mark on their adopted country.” —The Oregonian
“In her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States.” —Huffington Post
“Monumental…Lee handles her scholarly materials with grace, never overwhelming the reader with too many facts or incidents.” —Los Angeles Times
“Accessible yet sweeping.” —BookRiot
An impressive work that details how this diverse population has both swayed and been affected by the United States. —Library Journal Starred Review
Details
Details
Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/History |
Runtime: | 15.86 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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