About half were admitted directly from their ships and another half were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station.21 While popularly called the “Ellis Island of the West,” the immigration station on Angel Island was in fact very ...
But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an “epic and eye-opening” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an “epic and eye-opening” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
In this ground-breaking book, Pei-te Lien maps the actions and strategies of Asian Americans as they negotiate a space in the American political arena.
There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities into a political ...
Interestingly, the Philadelphia Folklore Project videotape documentary on Golden Sunrise (Noyes, Greenberg, and Kodish 1990) describes the club as working “within a more traditional framework,” and contrasts its “traditional motifs” ...
The key recruiters during this period were Inoue Kaoru, the Japanese foreign minister who negotiated the preliminary agreement and Immigration Convention with Hawaii; Robert W. Irwin, special agent of the Hawaii Immigration Bureau and ...
Robert ( Sonny ) Carson was the leader of the December 12th Movement . Carson viewed Korean - owned stores as part of a larger conspiracy . The group's flyers stated : “ The Korean boycott must be seen as an overall campaign to control ...
" This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts ...