Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
- ISBN-10
- 0374527369
- ISBN-13
- 9780374527365
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 356
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-05-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Helen Zia
Description
An account of the emergence of the Asian American consciousness in the United States explores the history that led to disparate groups of Asians seeing themselves as a single, cohesive ethnic community with political power.
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- 2001-05-01
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- 2000-03-09
- 256 pages
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