Asian Americans in Michigan
Subtitle: voices from the Midwest
By: [edited by] Sook Wilkinson, Victor Jew
Series: Great Lakes books series; Great Lakes books
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Detroit, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780814339749; 9780814332818
Subjects: Asian Americans; Discrimination & Race Relations; Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE
Description: "In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one diverse contributors to give an intimate glimpse into Michigan's Asian American communities. Contributors create a fuller picture of these often overlooked groups, including the historical and demographic origins of Michigan's Asian American communities, experiences in memory and legacy keeping, particular aspects of community culture and heritage,and prospects and hopes for the future"--Unedited summary from book cover.
Notes: Print version record.
Table of contents: title: A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans in Michigan / Kurt R. Metzger; title: Asian Americans and Michigan : A Long Transnational Legacy / Victor Jew; title: "Tell 'Em You're from Detroit" : Chinese Americans in the Model City / Chelsea Zuzindlak; title: "Ambassadors" in the Heartland : Asian American Racial and Regional Identity Formations in Michigan / Barbara W. Kim; title: Genealogy of a Detroit Childhood / Min Hyoung Song; title: The Making of an Asian American Detroiter / Grace Lee Boggs; title: Three Legacy Keepers : The Voices of Chinese, Korean, and Indo-American Michiganders / Tai Chan, Tukyul Andrew Kim, Kul B. Gauri; title: The History of Nikkei (Japanese) in Detroit / Toshiko Shimoura; title: From Hammered-Down Nail to Squeaky Cog : The Modern Japanese American Experience in Detroit / Asae Shichi; title: Bangladeshis in Hamtramck / Durriya Meer; title: A Brief History of Filipino Americans in Michigan / Emily P. Lawsin, Joseph A. Galura; title: How to Cook Like a Banana / Anna M. Shih; title: My Mother and the Kimchee Jar / Kook-Wha Koh; title: Going Back to Chinese School / Frances Kai-Hwa Wang; title: Mediating through Memory : The Hmong in Michigan / Jeffrey Vang; title: Growing Up in Michigan / Lawrence G. Almeda; title: Shoveling and Heaving : Michigan's Manangs and Manongs / Emily P. Lawsin; title: Adoption as Crucible / Jen Hilzinger; title: The Long Homecoming : Being Chinese and American in Michigan / Katherine M. Lee; title: My Family's Experience of the Japanese American Internment Camps / Dylan Sugiyama; title: Growing Up Hapa in Ann Arbor / Lynet Uttal; title: The Apology / Catherine Chung; title: Cars, Prejudice, and God / Kyo Takahashi; title: A Journey Begins on April 30, 1975 : Being Vietnamese American in Michigan / Mimi Doan-Trang Nguyen; title: A Strange Land / Elaine Lok; title: Day Remembered / Ti-Hua Chang; title: Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education in Michigan / Leslie E. Wong, Brianna Reckeweg; title: Political Engagement of Michigan Asian Americans / Sook Wilkinson; title: Arirang / Kira A. Donnell; title: Five Seconds / Sheila Xiong; title: A Search for Hyerim / Rachel Hyerim Sisco; title: Politics Runs in the Family / Samir Singh; title: Unconscious and Unrecognized / Emily Hsiao; title: Afterword / Bich Minh Nguyen; title: Appendix. Milestones of Asian Americans in the United States.