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  • af Najia Aarim
    253,95 - 1.718,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai'i
    af JoAnna Poblete
    233,95 - 533,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film
    af Shilpa S. Dave
    243,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    Focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.

  • - Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West
    af Sue Fawn Chung
    318,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    A fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town America

  • - Middletown and Asian America
    af Himanee Gupta-Carlson
    253,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

  • - Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
    af Chia Youyee Vang
    243,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    An unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in America

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    253,95 kr.

    An introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community

  • - Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center
    af Louis Fiset
    243,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    A detailed portrait of one assembly center for Japanese American internees

  • - THE NISEI GENERATION IN HAWAII
    af Eileen Tamura
    298,95 kr.

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    208,95 kr.

    Reprints stories from Mrs. Spring Fragrance by the first published Asian North American fiction writer

  • - Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb
    af Leland T. Saito
    243,95 kr.

  • - HOW JAPANESE AMERICANS OBTAINED REDRESS
    af Mitchell T Maki
    253,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Chinese Female Immigration before Exclusion
    af George Peffer
    218,95 kr.

    "Seven years before the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 comprehensively disqualified all members of China's laboring class from immigration status, the Page Law sought to stem the tide of Chinese prostitutes entering the United States. This title investigates how administrative agencies and federal courts enforced immigration laws.

  • - Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-49
    af David K. Yoo
    253,95 kr.

    The place occupied by Japanese Americans within the annals of US history has consisted mainly of a cameo appearance as victims of incarceration after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This work examines how the second generation - the Nisei - has shaped its identity and negotiated its place within American society.

  • - Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950
    af Susan L. Smith
    253,95 kr.

    Reveals the dynamic relationship between welfare state and the history of women and health. This book demonstrate the impossibility of clearly separating domestic policy from foreign policy, public health from racial politics, medical care from women's care giving, and the history of women and health from national and international politics.

  • af Daniel M. Masterson
    278,95 kr.

    Japanese migration to Latin America began in the late nineteenth century, and today the continent is home to 1.5 million persons of Japanese descent. Combining detailed scholarship with personal histories, this title offers a study of the patterns of Japanese migration on the continent as a whole.

  • - The Politics of Teaching and Program Building
    af Sucheng Chan
    253,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Xiao-huang Yin
    253,95 kr.

    The only volume covering literature written in English as well as the Chinese language

  • - Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-92
    af Xiaolan Bao
    253,95 kr.

    In 1982, 20,000 Chinese American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced Chinese garment industry employers in the city to sign a union contract. This study explains how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.

  • - The Story of Winnifred Eaton
    af Diana Birchall
    208,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Shehong Chen
    273,95 kr.

    Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the period between 1911 and 1927. This study also documents the emergence of permanent Chinese American communities, or Chinatowns.

  • - Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
    af Jasmine Alinder
    243,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    An in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War II

  • - How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator
    af Jose V. Fuentecilla
    198,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

    Describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in overthrowing the dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

  • - Identity, Belonging, and South Asian American Community
    af Tamara Bhalla
    243,95 - 1.023,95 kr.

  • - Asian Publics in North America
    af Christine Kim
    273,95 kr.

  • - Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940
    af Jason Oliver Chang
    253,95 - 1.018,95 kr.

  • - Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority
    af Eleanor Ty
    278,95 - 1.018,95 kr.

  • - The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon
    af Phuong Tran Nguyen
    253,95 - 1.018,95 kr.