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Informationen zum Autor Alice Yang! assistant professor of History at the University of California-Santa Cruz! received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994. Her academic interests include Asian American history! women's history! and twentieth-century U.S. history. Her most recent publication is an article entitled "Ilse Women and the Early Korean Community!" which was published in KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN: LIVING IN TWO CULTURES and reprinted in UNEQUAL SISTERS: A MULTICULTURAL READER IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY. Lon Kurashige is associate professor of History at the University of Southern California. He is author of PERFECT STORM OF EXCLUSION: ASIAN AMERICANS! POLITICAL DEBATE! AND THE MAKING OF A PACIFIC NATION (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press! 2016) and JAPANESE AMERICAN CELEBRATION AND CONFLICT: A HISTORY OF ETHNIC IDENTITY AND FESTIVAL! 1934-1990 (University of California Press! 2002)! winner of the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He co-edited "Conversations in Transpacific History!" a special edition of Pacific Historical Review (2014). His article "Rethinking Anti-Immigrant Racism: Lessons from the Los Angeles Vote on the 1920 Alien Land Law" won the Carl I. Wheat prize for best publication to appear in the Southern California Quarterly between 2012 and 2014. His writings have appeared in Journal of American History! Pacific Historical Review! Reviews in American History! and other academic journals. Dr. Kurashige also has co-authored a college-level textbook: GLOBAL AMERICANS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Cengage! 2018). Klappentext This collection! designed to be the primary anthology or textbook for courses in Asian American history! covers the subject's entire chronological span. The volume presents a carefully selected group of readings that requires students to evaluate primary sources! test the interpretations of distinguished historians! and draw their own conclusions. 1. Framing Asian American History ESSAYS Roger Daniels, Neglect and Distortion of Asian Americans by American Historians Ronald Takaki, The Centrality of Racism in Asian American History Sylvia Yanagisako, Rethinking the Centrality of Racism in Asian American History Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, Capitalist Restructuring and the New Asian Immigration Bill Ong Hing, What Does It Mean to Be Asian American? 2. Colonization, Pacific Markets, and Asian Labor Migration to the United States Before the Civil War DOCUMENTS Chinese Emperor Decries Market Expansion in South China, 1727 An American Trader Recommends a Route from California to China, 1850 Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson Excoriates Chinese Civilization, 1824 Hawaiians Petition the Privy Council to Halt Foreign Influence in the Islands, and the Council Replies, 1845 A Foreigner Speculates on Hawaiian Land Acquisition, 1849 American Commodore M.C. Perry Opens Up the Japanese Market, 1856 New York Times Heralds New Trade with China and Japan, 1858 Researcher Traces Early Nineteenth-Century Origins of Filipino American Family, 1988 ESSAYS Yong Chen, Origins of Chinese Emigration to California Ronald Takaki, Native and Asian Labor in the Colonization of Hawai'i 3. The Work of National Expansion in the American West, 1848-1908 DOCUMENTS Writer J. D. Borthwick Observes Chinese Miners in California, 1857 Chinese Laborers Report on a Race Riot at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 1885 Journalist Helen Grey Exposes the Activities of a Chinese Brothel Owner, 1899 Chinese Merchant Lee Wong Hing's Store in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1904 Leading Japanese Intellectual Encourages Westernization, 1875 Japanese Newspaper Jiji Shimpo Views Emigration as a Sign of Japan's Military Power, 1896 Japanese Government Criteria for Emigrants to Hawai'i, 1885 Japanese Official Condemns Brutal Working Conditions on Hawaiian Plantations, 1885 ESSAYS Sucheng Chan, Shifting Chinese Immigrant Employment Aki...
