Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies

A thought-provoking and sensitive exploration of what Chineseness means." , Financial Times "Liu's ability to so neatly capture the complexities of cultural identity on both deeply personal and more global levels is what makes this book shine. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499125344Author Daniel LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Why do so many Asians devote their lives to playing Western classical music?Why do so many Asians devote their lives to playing Western classical music?About the AuthorMari Yoshihara is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii...

Surviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544747613Author Professor Jean Lau ChinFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Labor, laws, and love. Yen Le Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. Asian American Men and Women documents how the historical and...

This is the only anthology that covers several different topics related to Koreans' experiences in the U.S. and Canada. The topics covered are Koreans' immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants' business patterns, Korean immigrant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781511598859Author Dr Daniel LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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In Second-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States and Canada, Pyong Gap Min and Samuel Noh have compiled a comprehensive examination of 1.5- and second-generation Korean experiences in the United States and Canada. As the chapters demonstrate,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475084337Author Roberta May WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A's Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438469522Author E. J. R. DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434846426Author Rev Mary B JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four...

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four...

This is the only anthology that covers several different topics related to Koreans' experiences in the U.S. and Canada. The topics covered are Koreans' immigration and settlement patterns, changes in Korean immigrants' business patterns, Korean immigrant...

Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s.Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817360382Author Raymond A MohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint University Alabama PressPublisher University Alabama PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans, David K. Yoo and Khyati Y. Joshi put together a wide-ranging and important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities - a combination so often...

This is a book of collection of unusual writings of Deena Khatkhate, a well-acclaimed economist of international repute.The volume represents different facets of the author's intellectual personality. He is a keen observer of the societies and societal...

Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of...

The American military started building its massive base complex in Okinawa at the end of World War II. During the decade that followed, U.S. forces seized vast areas of privately owned land with "bayonets and bulldozers," evicting and...

In The Asian Texans, author Marilyn Brady introduces readers to the languages, religions, and cultures of those who immigrated to the Lone Star State from Asia. Organized by region, the book discusses the lives and contributions of Chinese, Japanese,...

Spend time in New York City and, soon enough, you will encounter some of the Japanese nationals who live and work there-young English students, office workers, painters, and hairstylists. New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative...

Succeeding waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the United States, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. In this exciting new study, Jiemin Bao focuses on how cultural identities - as...

Succeeding waves of migration, from China to Thailand and from Thailand to the United States, have helped shape the identities of three generations of diasporic Chinese Thai. In this exciting new study, Jiemin Bao focuses on how cultural identities--as...

While the number of Asians in Michigan was small for a good portion of the state's history, many Asian-derived communities have settled in the area and grown significantly over time. In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook...

This collection of articles critically addresses current issues in Hawaii's Japanese American community such as the decline of plantation communities, Uchinanchu identity and culture, changing definitions of being Japanese American, the significance of...

In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle...

Why does North Korea consistently turn to provocative actions to achieve foreign policy goals? Are the actions of the Kim regime predictable or based on logical responses to the conditions faced by North Korea? In an examination of North Korean conflict...

Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally...

"This diverse collection, like Asian America itself, adds up to something far more vibrant than the sum of its voices." -Eric Liu, author of The Accidental Asian "There's fury, dignity, and self-awareness in these essays. I found the...

This scathingly satirical and hilarious novel, first published in Indonesia in 1991, affords both a blithely irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and brilliant insights into the postcolonial condition. The story...

From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian...

The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians. Abandoned during the war by their American fathers, discriminated against by the victorious Communists, and ignored for many years by the American...

In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595589408Author Vijay PrashadFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 209g

For immigrants to America, from Europeans in the early twentieth century through later Latinos, Asians, and Caribbeans, gaining social and political ground has generally been considered an exercise in ethnic and racial solidarity. The experience of South...