Opening the Gates to Asia
Opening the Gates to Asia

Author: Jane H. Hong

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-10-18

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1469653370

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Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration. The mid-twentieth century repeal of Asian exclusion, Hong shows, was part of the price of America's postwar empire in Asia. The demands of U.S. empire-building during an era of decolonization created new opportunities for advocates from both the U.S. and Asia to lobby U.S. Congress for repeal. Drawing from sources in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Opening the Gates to Asia charts a movement more than twenty years in the making. Positioning repeal at the intersection of U.S. civil rights struggles and Asian decolonization, Hong raises thorny questions about the meanings of nation, independence, and citizenship on the global stage.

Contemporary Asian America (second Edition)
Contemporary Asian America (second Edition)

Author: Min Zhou

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2007-10

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 0814797121

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When Contemporary Asian America was first published, it exposed its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the century’s end. This new edition features a number of fresh entries and updated material. It covers such topics as Asian American activism, immigration, community formation, family relations, gender roles, sexuality, identity, struggle for social justice, interethnic conflict/coalition, and political participation. As in the first edition, Contemporary Asian America provides an expansive introduction to the central readings in Asian American Studies, presenting a grounded theoretical orientation to the discipline and framing key historical, cultural, economic, and social themes with a social science focus. This critical text offers a broad overview of Asian American studies and the current state of Asian America.

The Asian American Movement
The Asian American Movement

Author: William Wei

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2010-06-18

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1439903743

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The first history and analysis of the Asian American Movement.

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation

Author: David L. Eng

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2019-01-17

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1478002689

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In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.

Anti-Asian Violence
Anti-Asian Violence

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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