Asian American histories of the United States

Author

Catherine Ceniza Choy

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.