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Title:
A new history of Asian America / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee.
Author:
Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, 1975-
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2014]
Call Number:
E184 .A75 L45 2014
ISBN:
9780415879538

9780415879545
Physical Description:
vi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Orientalism before Asian America -- The Asian diaspora in the pre-exclusion years -- Making a living : the politics and economics of work before the 1930s -- Social intimacy and Asian American communities before World War II -- Racism and the anti-Asian movements -- Response and resistance -- Americanization, modernity, and the second generation through the 1930s -- Asian Americans and the crucible of World War II -- Asian America in the early cold war years -- The Vietnam War, Southeast Asians, and the transformation of Asian America -- Politics and activism in Asian America in the 1960s and 1970s -- The watershed of 1965 and the remaking of Asian America -- Reckonings : Asian America in the late twentieth century.
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