num_pages: 256
description: Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in this country in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. The huge immigrations of recent years have prompted a surge of interest in the new Asian American experience. In Asian Americans, these immigrants and their families present their own stories―why they came to America and what it means to be Asian in America today.
language: English
title: Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia
titlecomplete: Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and Cambodia
genres: Sociology, Asian Literature, History, Memoir, India, Race, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 51
publisher: The New Press