Major problems in Asian American history
Subtitle: documents and essays
By: edited by Lon Kurashige, Alice Yang Murray.
Contributors: Kurashige, Lon, 1964-; Murray, Alice Yang.
Series: Major problems in American history; Major problems in American history series.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Asian Americans -- History.; Asian Americans -- History -- Sources.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Race relations -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the [book] introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. [The book] presents ... selected group of readings in a format that asks students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians and others, and draw their own conclusions"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Framing Asian American history; title: Colonization, Pacific markets, and Asian labor migration to the United States before the Civil War; title: The work of national expansion in the American West, 1848-1908; title: Confronting immigration exclusion, 1860s-1920s; title: Imperialism and anti-imperialism in the early twentieth century; title: Orientalism and popular culture, 1904-1930s; title: Interethnic tensions and alliances in the 1920s and 1930s; title: Americanization and the second generation, 1920-1942; title: War, race, and the meaning of citizenship, 1941-1988; title: Asian Americans and the Cold War, 1945-1965; title: Post-1965 immigration and Asian America; title: Refugees and their struggles in Asia and America, 1975-2000; title: Panethnicity, Asian American activism and identity, 1965-2000; title: New formations of Asian American culture, 1990-2001; title: Erasing borders and boundaries : Asian Americans in the twenty-first century.