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Book

Asian American histories of the United States

Call Number

  • 973.0495 C5529 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

Physical Description

xviii, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--

Contents

  • Writing in the years of great hatred
  • The multiple origins of Asian American histories
  • 2020 : the health of the nation
  • 1975 : trauma and transformation
  • 1968 : what's in the name "Asian American"?
  • 1965 : the many faces of post-1965 Asian America
  • 1965 reprise : the faces behind the food
  • 1953 : mixed race lives
  • 1941 and 1942 : the days that you remember
  • 1919 : declaration of independence
  • 1875 : homage
  • 1869 : these wounds.

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