Description

Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography. Historians, students, and teachers of anthropology, Asian and Asian American Studies, race and ethnic studies, U.S. immigration history, and American Studies will find this collection invaluable.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction: Underexplored Topics, Emerging Frameworks
Part 2 Part One: Underexplored Topics
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Chinese American Experiences in a New England Mill City: Lowell Massachusetts, 1876-1967
Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Revisiting New York's Chinatown, 1900-1930
Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Forgotten Families: The Development of the Chinese American Community in San Francisco, 1860-1880
Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Testing Assumptions: IQ, Japanese Americans, and the Model Minority Myth in the 1920s and 1930s
Chapter 7 Chapter 5: A Finer Set of Hopes and Dreams: The Japanese American Citizens League and Ethnic Community in Cincinnati, Ohio 1942-1950
Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Wrong Face, Wrong Name: The Return of Japanese American Veterans to Hood River, Oregon, after World War II
Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Return to the Wars: Jimmie Omura's 1947 Crusade Against the Japanese American Citizens League
Part 10 Part II: Emerging Frameworks
Chapter 11 Chapter 8: "Life is a Gamble": State Policies, Gender, and the Global Context of Filipino Migration to the United States
Chapter 12 Chapter 9: Politics and the Indochinese Refugees Exodus, 1975-1997
Chapter 13 Chapter 10: The Politics of Race and Redistricting in California, 2000-2002
Part 14 Afterword
Part 15 About the Editors
Part 16 Index

Product details

Published Oct 22 2003
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 304
ISBN 9780759104808
Imprint AltaMira Press
Dimensions 229 x 149 mm
Series Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sucheng Chan

Contributor

Allan W. Austin

Contributor

Xiaolan Bao

Contributor

Shehong Chen

Contributor

Leland Saito

Contributor

Linda Tamura

Contributor

David K. Yoo

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