Asian American histories of the United States
(2022)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
973.0495/CHOY,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 973.0495/CHOY,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]
DESCRIPTION

xviii, 222 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780807050798, 0807050792 :, 0807050792, 9780807050798
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Writing in the years of great hatred -- The multiple origins of Asian American histories -- 2020 : the health of the nation -- 1975 : trauma and transformation -- 1968 : what's in the name "Asian American"? -- 1965 : the many faces of post-1965 Asian America -- 1965 reprise : the faces behind the food -- 1953 : mixed race lives -- 1941 and 1942 : the days that you remember -- 1919 : declaration of independence -- 1875 : homage -- 1869 : these wounds

"Asian American Histories of the United States illuminates how an over-century-long history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the United States is fundamental to understanding the American experience and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century"--