Summary

Featuring detailed maps and authoritative text, Atlas of Asian-American History offers an in-depth look at the political and social history of this diverse ethnic group. This important volume addresses an often-neglected area of our cultural studies, telling the story of not one group of people but many.

Coverage includes:

• The Asian Heritage: The diversity of Asian culture; the geography of the many national and ethnic origins including India, China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia
• The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America: Regional origins of Chinese immigrants; Chinese miners in California; San Francisco's Chinatown; the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Asian Indian Immigration: The Hawaiian plantation system; Japanese and Koreans in Hawaii; Filipinos and Hawaii Labor Strife; the Picture Brides
• A Question of Citizenship: Anti-Japanese discrimination; the India Welfare League; Asian Americans and World War II; Pearl Harbor; Japanese Internment
• From Red Scare to Yellow Power: After Internment; a revolution in China; the McCarran-Walter Act; the Confession Program; Hawaii's statehood; the post-war boom
• Model Minorities and Refugees: The Redress Movement; Southeast Asian refugees and the demographic profile; new immigrants from India and Korea; anti-Asian violence; the Los Angeles riot of 1991
• Asian America Today: "Model Minorities;" Asian-American health statistics; SAT scores; Asian-American culture.

Specifications

eBook