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  • The Columbia Guide to Asian American History

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. It examines, comments, and questions the changing assumptions and contexts underlying the experiences and contributions of an incredibly diverse population of Americans. Arriving and settling in this nation ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Cane Fires

    The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    Outstanding Book in History and Social Science Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 1992 "Okihiro's account is an important corrective to our understanding of the Japanese American Experience in World War II." --The Hawaiian Journal of History Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Oral History

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    by Allan Nevins, Louis Starr, Ronald J. Grele, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Tuchman, William Cutler III, William Moss, Jan Vansina, Ruth Finnegan, David Lance, Saul Benison, Peter Friedlander, Amelia Fry, Lynwood Montell, Larry Danielson, Gary Okihiro, Sherna Gluck, Linda Shopes, Tamara Hareven, Alex Haley, Richard Dorson, Charles Joyner, Sidney Mintz, David Dunaway, Eugenia Meyer, Paul Thompson, Karen Hartewig, Daniel Voldman, Alessandro Portelli, Dora Schwarztein ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • AfroAsian Encounters

    Culture, History, Politics

    by Gary Okihiro ...
    With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of ... Read more

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  • Keywords for Asian American Studies

    Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    Series Book 4 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American StudiesBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

    Edited by David K. Yoo, Eiichiro Azuma ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Making of Asian America

    A History

    by Erika Lee ...
    A “comprehensive…fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

    Edited by Wahneema Lubiano ...
    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
    In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese ... Read more

    $9.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Chinese in America

    A Narrative History

    by Iris Chang ...
    A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fear of Black Consciousness

    by Lewis R. Gordon ...
    Lewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopherIn this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Asian American Dreams

    The Emergence of an American People

    by Helen Zia ...
    The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into ... Read more

    $12.99 USD