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  • av Onoto Watanna
    286,-

    What did it mean to be a 'half caste' in early twentieth-century North America? This collection of short works ranges from magazine romance to story melodrama and provides an introduction to a unique literary personality - Onoto Watanna. It includes nineteen - thirteen stories and six essays - intended to show the versatility of her writing.

  • - Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture
    av Mark R. Villegas
    316 - 1 236,-

  • - Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora
    av Harrod J. Suarez
    360 - 1 236,-

  • - The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
    av Phuong Tran Nguyen
    340 - 1 236,-

  • - Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
    av Eleanor Ty
    400 - 1 236,-

  • - Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
    av Jason Oliver Chang
    340 - 1 236,-

  • - Asian Publics in North America
    av Christine Kim
    360,-

  • - Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
    av Tamara Bhalla
    326 - 1 236,-

  • - How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator
    av Jose V. Fuentecilla
    280 - 1 236,-

    Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

  • - Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
    av Jasmine Alinder
    326 - 1 236,-

    An in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War II

  • av Shehong Chen
    360,-

    Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the period between 1911 and 1927. This study also documents the emergence of permanent Chinese American communities, or Chinatowns.

  • - The Story of Winnifred Eaton
    av Diana Birchall
    290,-

    Born to a British father and a Chinese mother, Winnifred Eaton (1875-1954) decided to capitalize on her exotic appearance. This work chronicles the sometimes desperate, sometimes canny, and always bold course of her career as a journalist, a bestselling novelist, and a Hollywood scriptwriting protegee of Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios.

  • - Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92
    av Xiaolan Bao
    340,-

    In 1982, 20,000 Chinese American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced Chinese garment industry employers in the city to sign a union contract. This study explains how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.

  • av Xiao-huang Yin
    350,-

    The only volume covering literature written in English as well as the Chinese language

  • - The Politics of Teaching and Program Building
    av Sucheng Chan
    340,-

    Discusses the author's experiences on three campuses within the University of California system where Asian American studies was first developed - in response to vehement student demand - under the rubric of ethnic studies. This title documents a field of endeavour in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other.

  • av Daniel M. Masterson
    360,-

    Japanese migration to Latin America began in the late nineteenth century, and today the continent is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with personal histories, this title offers a study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole.

  • - Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950
    av Susan L. Smith
    340,-

    Reveals the dynamic relationship between welfare state and the history of women and health. This book demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics.

  • - Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49
    av David K. Yoo
    340,-

    The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of US history has consisted mainly of a cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This work examines how the second generation - the Nisei - has shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society.

  • - Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion
    av George Peffer
    306,-

    "Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's laboring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. This title investigates how administrative agencies and federal courts enforced immigration laws.

  • - HOW JAPANESE AMERICANS OBTAINED REDRESS
    av Mitchell T Maki
    340,-

    Tells how members of the politically inexperienced minority Japanese American group organized themselves at the grass-roots level, gathered political support, and succeeded in obtaining a written apology from the president of the United States and monetary compensation in accordance with the provisions of the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.

  • - Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
    av Leland T. Saito
    316,-

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    290,-

    Reprints stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance by the first published Asian North American fiction writer

  • - THE NISEI GENERATION IN HAWAII
    av Eileen Tamura
    386,-

  • - Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center
    av Louis Fiset
    326 - 1 236,-

    A detailed portrait of one assembly center for Japanese American internees

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    322,-

    An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community

  • - Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
    av Chia Youyee Vang
    326 - 1 236,-

    An unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in America

  • - Middletown and Asian America
    av Himanee Gupta-Carlson
    340 - 1 236,-

  • - Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West
    av Sue Fawn Chung
    390 - 1 236,-

    A fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town America

  • - Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film
    av Shilpa S. Dave
    326 - 1 236,-

    Focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.

  • - Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i
    av JoAnna Poblete
    300 - 646,-

    Using plantation documents, missionary records, government documents, and oral histories, this book analyzes how the workers interacted with Hawaiian government structures and businesses, how US policies for colonial workers differed from those for citizens or foreigners, and how policies aided corporate and imperial interests.

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