The Making of Asian America: A History

The Making of Asian America: A History

A â€œcomprehensiveâ€¦fascinatingâ€ (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nationâ€™s preeminent scholars on the subject.

In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. â€œIn her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United Statesâ€ (Huffington Post).

The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a â€œdespised minority,â€ Asian Americans are now held up as Americaâ€™s â€œmodel minoritiesâ€ in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.

Published fifty years after the passage of the United Statesâ€™ Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these â€œpowerful Asian American storiesâ€¦are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdueâ€ (Los Angeles Times). But more than that, The Making of Asian America is an â€œepic and eye-openingâ€ (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-01
Format	Kindle eBook