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. …mehr
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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