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    The Making of Asian America: A History
    The Making of Asian America: A History
    The Making of Asian America: A History
    Audiobook15 hours

    The Making of Asian America: A History

    Written by Erika Lee

    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller

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    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. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day.

    An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States. From the sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, and from the Asian exclusion laws of the nineteenth century to Japanese American incarceration during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.

    Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.

    Editor's Note

    Well-researched…

    “The Making of Asian America” is a well-researched book that gives you exceeding confidence that the historian has done her homework for you. This history is incredibly well-paced, with a thoughtful flow of historical records, stats, and stories of individuals. Somehow it manages to give attention to specific communities while also addressing the thread of the entire Asian American experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781494584542
    Author

    Erika Lee

    Erika Lee is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

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    • 4/5
      Informative and comprehensive history of Asians in the new world. Narrator sounded like a robot. Her tone very flat and fake.
    • 3/5
      A thorough history of Asians in the Americas that highlights the obstacles Asian-Americans have overcome and continuing obstacles they face.
    • 5/5
      An amazing overview of the history of Asians in America. This is a tale that’s needs to be heard by all Americans.