Bøger i Asian America serien
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- Building the Transcontinental Railroad
328,95 kr. This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad-but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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- 328,95 kr.
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- Building the Transcontinental Railroad
1.343,95 kr. This landmark volume sheds light on the lives and experiences of the Chinese workers who made up 90% of the workforce that built the Central Pacific Railroad-but who have been little understood and largely invisible in traditional accounts of the building of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
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- 1.343,95 kr.
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- Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965
632,95 kr. Race and the Avant-Garde investigates the relationship between identity and poetic form in contemporary American literature, focusing on Asian American and experimental poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Ron Silliman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and John Yau.
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- 632,95 kr.
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- Race, Representation, and Memory
314,95 kr. Ana Paulina Lee is Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at Columbia University.
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- 314,95 kr.
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- Race, Representation, and Memory
1.164,95 kr. Ana Paulina Lee is Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies at Columbia University.
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- 1.164,95 kr.
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- The Memoir of Militant Japanese American Journalist Jimmie Omura
1.316,95 kr. James Matsumoto Omura (1912¿1994) was a newspaper editor and later operated a landscaping business in Denver, Colorado. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Journalists Association in 1989.Arthur A. Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton.
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- 1.316,95 kr.
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- South Asians in the US
838,95 kr. This book argues that South Asians in the United States must be understood as a people who constantly move between two or more cultures, places, languages, and societies, thanks to technology, travel, and globalization.
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- 838,95 kr.
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387,95 kr. This is the first comprehensive study of how U. S. immigration policies have shaped-demographically, economically, and socially-the six largest Asian American communities.
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- 387,95 kr.
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- Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture
732,95 kr. The Global Silicon Valley Home takes a close look at how residents (Taiwanese American high-tech engineer families) of the jet-set, wired-to-the-Net, trans-Pacific commuter culture have invented new ways of thinking about how their homes and landscapes reflect their personal identities-ways that enable them to make sense of "living life within two places at once."
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- 732,95 kr.
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- Essays in Prewar Japanese American History
739,95 kr. This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years.
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- 739,95 kr.
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- Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943
317,95 kr. This book is a highly original study of transnationalism among immigrants from the county of Taishan, from which, until 1965, a high percentage of the Chinese in the United States originated. The author vividly depicts the continuing ties between Taishanese remaining in China and their kinsmen seeking their fortune in "Gold Mountain."
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- 317,95 kr.
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861,95 kr. This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and the passage of redress legislation in 1988.
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- 861,95 kr.
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- Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act
833,95 kr. Adding an important new dimension to the history of U.S.-Japan relations, this book reveals that an unofficial movement to promote good feeling between the United States and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s only narrowly failed to achieve its goal: to modify the so-called anti-Japanese exclusion clause of the 1924 U.S. immigration law.
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- 833,95 kr.
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- Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
454,95 kr. This book presents both a biography of a Stanford University professor, one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States, and, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only known comprehensive first-person account of life in U.S. "relocation centers" for persons of Japanese ancestry.
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- 454,95 kr.
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- Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
2.053,95 kr. This book presents both a biography of a Stanford University professor, one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States, and, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only known comprehensive first-person account of life in U.S. "relocation centers" for persons of Japanese ancestry.
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- 2.053,95 kr.
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- Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
338,95 kr. This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas-including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States.
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- 338,95 kr.
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- Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
1.414,95 kr. This book confronts the question of who and what is a Nikkei, that is, a person of Japanese descent, by presenting 18 case studies from throughout the Americas-including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States.
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- 1.414,95 kr.
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- Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America
434,95 kr. This book documents the Cambodian refugee experience through powerful first-person narratives of men, women, and children who survived the holocaust and have begun new lives in America.
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- 434,95 kr.
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- Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
338,95 kr. On August 10, 1988 President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act. This is a case study of the political, institutional, and external factors that led to the passage of this act.
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- 338,95 kr.