Asian American History

Huping Ling (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

394 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2624-3 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America.

A comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history. Asian American History:

Covers the major and minor Asian American ethnic groups. It presents the myriad and poignant stories of a diverse body of Asian Americans, from illiterate immigrants to influential individuals, within a broad and comparative framework, offering microscopic narratives as well as macroscopic analysis and overviews.
Utilizes both primary and secondary sources, employs data and surveys, and incorporates most recent scholarly discourses.
Attractive and accessible by incorporating voices and illustrations of the contemporaries and by using straightforward language and concise syntax, while maintaining a reasonable level of scholarly depth.
Special features: Each chapter features Significant Events, Sidebars incorporating primary sources or scholarly debates, Review Questions, and Further Readings to aid and enhance student learning experience. Bibliographies, charts, maps, photographs and tables are included.
Written by a preeminent historian with four decades of teaching, research, and publishing experiences in Asian American history, it is the best book on the subject to date.

HUPING LING, professor emerita of history at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, served as the executive editor in chief for the Journal of Asian American Studies from 2008 to 2012. A prize-winning author, she has authored or edited over thirty books and published over two hundred articles on Asian American studies.

Preface

PART I Coming to America, 1765-1840s

1 ROOTS OF ASIAN MIGRATION TO AMERICA

Cultural Heritage of Asian Migrants

Global Context for Asian Migration

Asian Context and Patterns of Migration

Roots of Asian Migration to America in Historical Perspective

2 RESTRICTIONS AND RESISTANCES

Racial Prejudice

Economic Sanctions

Physical Violence

Exclusion Laws and Policies

The Enforcement of Exclusion Laws

Protests against Exclusion and Discrimination

Asian Immigration Restrictions and Resistance in Historical Perspective

PART II Asian American Experiences, 1840s-1965

3 LABOR

Sugar Plantations, Mines, and Railroads

Urban Niche Economy

Niche in Agriculture

Labor in Historical Perspective

4 DEFINING HOME AND COMMUNITY

Domesticity and Innovative Family Formations

Changing Gender Roles

The Second-Generation "Dilemma"

Ethnic Community Building

Asian Immigrant Home and Community in Historical Perspective

5 WORLD WAR II: A TURNING POINT

Changing Public Mood

In Military Services

Home Front

End of Exclusion

Japanese Internment

Asian Americans and World War II in Historical Perspective

PART III Contemporary Asian Americans, 1965-2020s

6 NEW WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES

A More Gender-Balanced Society

Effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

Southeast Asian Americans

Plights and Potentials of Undocumented Immigrants

"The Quiet Migration": Transnational Transracial Adoption

New Waves of Immigrants in Historical Perspective

7 MOVING UPWARD

Educational Attainments

New Patterns of Employment and Economic Potentials and Constraints

Political Incorporation

Myth and Reality of "Model Minority"

Asian American Upward Mobility in Historical Perspective

8 NEW FORMATIONS OF ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES

Urban Enclaves (1850s)

Transnational Urban and Suburban Communities and Cyber Communities (1990s)

Asian American Communities in Historical Perspective

PART IV The Future of Asian America, 2020s–

9 THEORIZING ASIAN AMERICA: SIGNIFICANT THEORIES AND ISSUES

Asian American Movement and the Construction of Pan-Asian Ethnicity

Challenges of Asian American Identities in Recent Decades

Asian American Panethnicity in Historical Perspective

10 THE FUTURE OF ASIAN AMERICA UNDER GLOBALIZATION

China Rise / Asian Rise versus the U.S. Decline

Importance of Global Collaboration and Various Prescriptions

New Trends of Migration and Assimilation under Globalization

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Communities

Asian Americans under Globalization in Historical Perspective

CHRONOLOGY

NOTES

INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	25 bw, 18 color, 9 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	966 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2624-9 / 1978826249
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2624-3 / 9781978826243
Zustand	Neuware