Books of Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
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Asian-Americans: Social and Psychological Perspectives. Vol. II
By Stanley Sue, Nathaniel N. WagnerWhile the Japanese have intermarried less than other racial groups , the rate is increasing ( Lind , 1946 ; Steiner , 1947 ) . The intersocial relationship of the multiracial composition of Hawaii lends itself to a greater social ...
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The Asian-American Almanac: A Reference Work on Asians in the United States
By Susan B. GallThe King comes from the Chetris caste , and the ruling family of Rana is Chetris as well . The caste system has dominated Nepal since the seventh century , when it is believed that the ruling caste from India fled a Muslim invasion to ...
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Chinese American Intermarriage
By Betty Lee SungKitano , Harry 1961 " Differential Child - Rearing Attitudes Between First and Second Generation Japanese in the United States , " Journal of Social Psychology , 53 : 13–19 . Kitano , H. and Lynn Kyung Chai 1982 “ Korean Interracial ...
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Notable Asian Americans
By Susan B. Gall, Helen ZiaProvides brief biographies of business executives, ambassadors, athletes, writers, lawyers, journalists, activists, politicians, scientists, artists, and educators
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Victorio Acosta Velasco: An American Life
By Michael Serizawa BrownOn 31 July 1944 , Velasco described Cardona to Mori as someone lacking courage , Navea as holding a " dumb - like silence in the face of ... important issues , ” and his other rival , Johnny Lucero , as having an “ inferiority complex ...
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Japanese American Internment During World War II: A History and Reference Guide
By Wendy NgSource : Clifford I. Uyeda , Suspended : Growing Up Asian in America ( San Francisco : National Japanese American Historical Society , 2000 ) , pp . 229-30 , 233-5 . Document 11 TESTIMONY OF WARREN FURUTANI BEFORE THE COMMISSION ON ...
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The Challenge of the American Dream: The Chinese in the United States
By Francis L. K. HsuA more sophisticated version of this essentially economic interpretation of history is the Frontier Thesis by the American historian , Frederick J. Turner . In the environment of an undeveloped continent , the pioneers had a need for ...
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Once Upon a Dream-- the Vietnamese-American Experience
By Andrew Lam, De Tran, Hai Dai NguyenOnce Upon a Dream-- the Vietnamese-American Experience
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New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, Power
By Franklin NgIncludes essays on demographic, political, economic, and social changes affecting people of Southeast Asian, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese ancestry -- in Hawaii and on the U.S. mainland. Special sections on...
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Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II
By James C. McNaughtonNOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly reduced list price while supplies last At the start of World War, II the U.S. Army turned to Americans...
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尋根溯源中國人的姓氏: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames
By Sheau-yueh J. ChaoThe German Element in St. Louis constitutes one of the best snapshots we have of culture and society in a German-American community on the eve of World War I. At...
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Reference Library of Asian America
By Susan B. GallThis essential source on a wide range of subject areas on Asian-Americans...the fastest growing minority group in the United States, THE REFERENCE LIBRARY OF ASIAN AMERICA has been highly acclaimed...
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The Filipino Americans
By Barbara M. PosadasThe first historical study to examine the post-1965 Filipino immigration to the United States in detail, with an emphasis on individual immigrants and their stories.
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Amy Tan: A Critical Companion
By E. D. HuntleyAmy Tan has established a reputation as a major novelist of not only the Asian American experience but the universal experience of family relationships. With the publication of her first...
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The Woman Warrior: China Men
By Maxine Hong Kingston(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Here–for the first time in one volume–are two classic, brilliantly original works on the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. In both books Maxine Hong Kingston mines...
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Under Western Eyes: Personal Essays from Asian America
By Garrett Kaoru HongoUsing personal experience as a way of addressing difficult social and political issues, these contributors look to their own lives to assess how assimilation, generational differences, racism, language, family, and...
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Skirt Full of Black: Poems
By Sun Yung Shin“Shin’s poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman’s life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is...
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Culture, Conflict, and Mediation in the Asian Pacific
By Bruce E. BarnesThe countries of China, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand are brought together for the first time in an integrated and systematic work outlining each country's cultural...
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Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress
By Alice Yang MurrayThis book analyzes how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans during the last six decades. It compares attempts by...
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Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball
By Kerry Yo NakagawaThere is nothing new about the passion of the Japanese people, or of Japanese Americans for that matter, for the Great American Pastime. In this book, Through a Diamond, Kerry...