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  • - Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America
    af Usha Welaratna
    431,95 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.

  • - Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
    af Tina Chen
    232,95 - 1.072,95 kr.

    In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood.

  • - The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals
    af Augusto Fauni Espiritu
    256,95 - 1.218,95 kr.

    Five Faces of Exile is the first transnational history of Asian American intellectuals. Espiritu explores five Filipino American writers whose travels, literary works, and political reflections transcend the boundaries of nations and the categories of "Asia" and "America."

  • af Alice Yang Murray
    857,95 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.

  • - Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act
    af Izumi Hirobe
    830,95 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.

  • - Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature
    af Christopher Lee
    818,95 kr.

    This book examines how Asian American fiction reveals with the limitations of identity while continuing to rely on its theoretical logic as the basis of oppositional knowledge and political practices.

  • - History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's Transnational Novels
    af Jinqi Ling
    878,95 kr.

    Across Meridians is the first book-length study of Karen Tei Yamashita's transnational novels.

  • - South Asians in America
    af Bakirathi Mani
    318,95 - 1.853,95 kr.

    Aspiring to Home explores South Asian immigrants as they create new ethnic identities through popular cultural works that bind together narratives of multicultural and postcolonial citizenship.

  • - Race, Transnational Migration, and Community Since 1870
    af Huping Ling
    273,95 - 1.598,95 kr.

  • - Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies
    af Celine Shimizu
    224,95 - 1.021,95 kr.

    Straightjacket Sexualities is the first full-length study of the racialization of Asian American men in Hollywood and independent films from 1959-2009. It argues that the attribution of asexual, effeminate, and queer labels-indicating what these men lack-inadequately captures how Asian American men both wield power and experience its disciplining force.

  • - New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
    af Tritia Toyota
    232,95 - 1.018,95 kr.

    Envisioning America is a revealing ethnographic portrait of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have pursued the democratic ideals of participation through political empowerment and community recognition despite impediments to their full inclusion as American citizens.

  • - Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
     
    309,95 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.

  • - Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
     
    1.411,95 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.

  • af II Mukerji & Dhan Gopal
    218,95 - 224,95 kr.

    Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man of letters. This reissue of his classic autobiography, with a new Introduction and Afterword, seeks to revitalize interest in Mukerji and his work and to contribute to the exploration of the South Asian experience in America.

  • - Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent
    af David Leiwei Li
    256,95 - 1.213,95 kr.

    This book identifies the forces behind the explosive growth in Asian American literature. It charts its emergence and explores both the unique place of Asian Americans in American culture and what that place says about the way Americanness is defined.

  • - Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
    af Leslie T. Hatamiya
    335,95 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.

  • - Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity
    af Daniel Kim
    253,95 - 1.428,95 kr.

    This book is a comparative study of African American and Asian American representations of masculinity and race, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin.

  • - Intergenerational Politics and Civic Engagement among Hmong Americans
    af Carolyn Wong
    776,95 kr.

    This book examines the paths taken by Hmong Americans towards a participatory citizenship and active engagement in politics in the United States.

  • - Building the Transcontinental Railroad
     
    1.328,95 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.

  • - Multiethnic Asian American Identities
    af Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
    232,95 - 1.013,95 kr.

  • - Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943
    af Madeline Y. Hsu
    314,95 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."

  • - Lives and Landscapes Within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture
    af Shenglin Chang
    720,95 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."

  • - A Trans-Pacific Community
    af Yong Chen
    288,95 - 1.213,95 kr.

    Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.

  • - Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs
    af Lisa Sun-Hee Park
    232,95 - 1.363,95 kr.

    Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship and belonging as Americans through conspicuous consumption.

  • - Asian Americans and Miscegenation
    af Susan Koshy
    224,95 - 1.368,95 kr.

    Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, Koshy traces the shifting gender and racial hierarchies produced by antimiscegenation laws, and their role in shaping cultural norms.

  • - Essays in Prewar Japanese American History
    af Yuji Ichioka
    720,95 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.

  • - Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
     
    451,95 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.

  • - Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
     
    2.073,95 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.

  • af Bill Ong Hing
    384,95 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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