Re/collecting early Asian America
Subtitle: essays in cultural history
By: edited by Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa.
Contributors: Lee, Josephine D.; Lim, Imogene L., 1954-; Matsukawa, Yuko, 1962-
Series: Asian American history and culture
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Historiography; Asian Americans -- History; Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Asian American arts; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States
Other titles: Recollecting early Asian America
Description: Asks readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what its history constitutes. Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century and the 1960s, the essays address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from "official" histories; trace the roots of persistent racial stereotypes and myths; and retrieve artistic production that raises questions of what counts as "art" or as Asian American. By reconsidering the political, cultural, and material history written in the past three decades, contributes to a new understanding of Asian America's past and relationship to the present.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.