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Undercover Asian - Multiracial Asian Americans In Visual Culture

by Leilani Nishime

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 Offers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.
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Raced To Death In 1920s Hawai I - Injustice And Revenge In The Fukunaga Case

by Jonathan Y Okamura

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 <div>On September 18, 1928, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga kidnapped and brutally murdered ten-year-old George Gill Jamieson in Waikîkî. Fukunaga, a nineteen-year-old nisei, or second-generation Japanese American, confessed to the crime. Within three weeks, authorities had convicted him and sentenced him to hang, despite questions about Fukunaga''s sanity and a deeply flawed defense by his court-appointed attorneys. Jonathan Y. Okamura argues that officials "raced" Fukunaga to death—first viewing the accused only as Japanese despite the law supposedly being colorblind, and then hurrying to satisfy the Haole (white) community''s demand for revenge. Okamura sets the case against an analysis of the racial hierarchy that undergirded Hawai‘ian society, which was dominated by Haoles who saw themselves most threatened by the islands'' sizable Japanese American community. The Fukunaga case and others like it in the 1920s reinforced Haole supremacy and maintained the racial boundary that separated Haoles from non-Haoles, particularly through racial injustice. As Okamura challenges the representation of Hawai i as a racial paradise, he reveals the ways Haoles usurped the criminal justice system and reevaluates the tense history of anti-Japanese racism in Hawai i.</div>
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Muncie, India(Na) - Middletown And Asian America

by Himanee Gupta-Carlson

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 <div>Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and tensions woven into the American communities that Muncie supposedly embodied. Himanee Gupta-Carlson puts forth an essential question: what do nonwhites, non-Christians, and/or non-natives mean when they call themselves American? A daughter in one of Muncie''s first Indian American families, Gupta-Carlson merges personal experience, the life histories of others, and critical analysis to explore the answers. Her stories of members of Muncie''s South Asian communities unearth the silences imposed by past studies while challenging the body of scholarship in fundamental ways. At the same time, Gupta-Carlson shares personal memories and experiences that illuminate her place within the historical, political, and socio-cultural currents she engages in her work. It also reveals how that work informs and transforms her as a scholar and a person. As meditative as it is insightful, Muncie, India(na) invites readers to feel the truth of the fascinating stories behind one woman''s revised portrait of an American community.</div>
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Chino - Anti-Chinese Racism In Mexico, 1880-1940

by Jason Oliver Chang

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 <div>From the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, antichinismo --the politics of racism against Chinese Mexicans--found potent expression in Mexico. Jason Oliver Chang delves into the untold story of how antichinismo helped the revolutionary Mexican state, and the elite in control, of it build their nation. As Chang shows, anti-Chinese politics shared intimate bonds with a romantic ideology that surrounded the transformation of the mass indigenous peasantry into dignified mestizos. Racializing a Chinese Other became instrumental in organizing the political power and resources for winning Mexico''s revolutionary war, building state power, and seizing national hegemony in order to dominate the majority Indian population. By centering the Chinese in the drama of Mexican history, Chang opens up a fascinating untold story about the ways antichinismo was embedded within Mexico''s revolutionary national state and its ideologies. Groundbreaking and boldly argued, Chino is a first-of-its-kind look at the essential role the Chinese played in Mexican culture and politics.</div>
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Asianfail - Narratives Of Disenchantment And The Model Minority

by Eleanor Ty

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 <div>Eleanor Ty''s bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation''s narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed. Some are haunted by childhood memories of war, trauma, and refugee camps. Rejecting an obsession with professional status and money, they seek fulfillment by prioritizing relationships, personal growth, and cultural success. As Ty shows, these storytellers have done more than reject a narrowly defined road to happiness. They have rejected neoliberal capitalism itself. In so doing, they demand that the rest of us reconsider our outmoded ideas about the so-called model minority.</div>
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Chinese In The Woods - Logging And Lumbering In The American West

by Sue Fawn Chung

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 Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.
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Islanders In The Empire - Filipino And Puerto Rican Laborers In Hawai'I

by Joanna Poblete

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 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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Fighting From A Distance - How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple A Dictator

by Jose V. Fuentecilla

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 Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
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Indian Accents - Brown Voice And Racial Performance In American Television And Film

by Shilpa S. Dave

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 Focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.
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Fighting From A Distance - How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple A Dictator

by Jose V. Fuentecilla

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 Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.
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Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, And Racial Anxiety In The United States, 1848-82

by Najia Aarim-Heriot

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 Examines the link between the "Chinese question" and the "Negro problem" in nineteenth-century America. This work demonstrates that the anti-Chinese sentiment that led up to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is inseparable from the racial double standards applied by mainstream white society toward white and nonwhite groups.
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Not Just Victims - Conversations With Cambodian Community Leaders In The United States

by Sucheng Chan

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 Describes Cambodian history, migration, and resettlement in the US.
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"A Half Caste" And Other Writings

by Onoto Watanna

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 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.
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In Defense Of Asian American Studies - The Politics Of Teaching And Program Building

by Sucheng Chan

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 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.
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Onoto Watanna - The Story Of Winnifred Eaton

by Diana Birchall

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 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.
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Mrs. Spring Fragrance And Other Writings

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 Reprints stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance by the first published Asian North American fiction writer
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Achieving The Impossible Dream - How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress

by Harry H Kitano, Mitchell T Maki e S Megan Berthold

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 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.
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In Pursuit Of Gold - Chinese American Miners And Merchants In The American West

by Sue Fawn Chung

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 A fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town America
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Hmong America - Reconstructing Community In Diaspora

by Chia Youyee Vang

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 An unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in America
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Chinese American Transnational Politics

by Him Mark Lai

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 Traces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This title penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.
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Issei Buddhism In The Americas

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 A wide-ranging exploration of Asian immigrant religion
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Chinese American Transnational Politics

by Him Mark Lai

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 Traces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This book penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.
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Camp Harmony - Japanese American Internment And The Puyallup Assembly Center

by Louis Fiset

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 A detailed portrait of one assembly center for Japanese American internees
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Religion And Spirituality In Korean America

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 An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community
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