140 books (7 pages) in this category
50 Events That Shaped American Indian History: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic [2 volumes]
by Donna Martinez & Jennifer L. Williams Bordeaux
<p>This powerful two-volume set provides an insider's perspective on American Indian experiences through engaging narrative entries about key historical events written by leading scholars in American Indian history as well as inspiring ...
ISBN: 9781440835773
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eBookA Sociological Analysis of Vietnamese Society
In the Palace of the Dragon King
by Kazutaka Hashimoto
<p>Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: B, , language: English, abstract: Now, the confusion of road traffic in big cities in Vietnam has become serious a large number of ...
ISBN: 9783656868866
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eBookThe Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters
by Sasha Su-Ling Welland
<p>*For the bibliography mentioned in the book, <a href="http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/rl/books/Welland/WellandBibliography.pdf">click here</a>. </p> <p><em>A Thousand Miles of Dreams</em> is an evocative and intimate biography of two ...
ISBN: 9781442210066
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eBookCollective Memoirs of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP)
by Rene Ciria Cruz, Cindy Domingo & Bruce Occena
<p>A Time to Rise is an intimate look into the workings of the KDP, the only revolutionary organization that emerged in the Filipino American community during the politically turbulent 1970s and ?80s. Overcoming cultural and class differences, ...
ISBN: 9780295742038
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eBookTwelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River
by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
The Nguyen of Kim Bai (a village in the Red River delta in Vietnam) traces its ancestry back to at least the 15th century. The region is also considered to be the birthplace of the Vietnamese race (the epic revolt of the Trung sisters against ...
ISBN: 9780786487790
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eBookLatinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap
by Gilda L. Ochoa
<DIV><P>Today the achievement gap is hotly debated among pundits, politicians, and educators. In particular this conversation often focuses on the two fastest-growing demographic groups in the United States: Asian Americans and Latinos. In ...
ISBN: 9781452940137
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eBookAd Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers
by Shalini Shankar
<p>In <em>Advertising Diversity</em> Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years ...
ISBN: 9780822375616
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eBookAsian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism
by Iyko Day
<p>In <em>Alien Capital</em> Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the ...
ISBN: 9780822374527
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eBookAnd Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps
by Tateishi, John
<P>At the outbreak of World War II, more than 115,000 Japanese American civilians living on the West Coast of the United States were rounded up and sent to desolate �relocation� camps, where most spent the duration of the war. In ...
ISBN: 9780295803944
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eBookAmerican and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951–1967
by Mike Bogue
<p>The United States, the only country to have dropped the bomb, and Japan, the only one to have suffered its devastation, understandably portray the nuclear threat differently on film. American science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s ...
ISBN: 9781476629001
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eBookSociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
by Pawan Dhingra & Robyn Magalit Rodriguez
<p>Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this ...
ISBN: 9780745682365
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eBookAsian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850
by Daniels, Roger
<P>In this important and masterful synthesis of the Chinese and Japanese experience in America, historian Roger Daniels provides a new perspective on the significance of Asian immigration to the United States. Examining the period from the ...
ISBN: 9780295801186
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eBookAsian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries
by Ling, Huping
<DIV>The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian ...
ISBN: 9780813548678
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eBookAsian American Athletes in Sport and Society
by C. Richard King
<p>For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the ...
ISBN: 9781317595311
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eBookAsian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms [2 volumes]
From Anime to Tiger Moms
by Lan Dong Ph.D.
<p>Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and popular culture, this two-volume work is an ideal resource for students and ...
ISBN: 9781440829215
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eBookFighting for Cultural Citizenship
by Lori Kido Lopez
<p><em>Choice Top 25 Academic Title</em> </p> <p><strong>How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship.</strong> </p> <p> </p> <p>Among the most well-known YouTubers are a cadre ...
ISBN: 9781479825417
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eBookAsian American Sporting Cultures
by Lisa Lowe
<p><em>Asian American Sporting Cultures</em> delves into the American sports arena to explore the long history of Asian American sporting cultures and considers how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting ...
ISBN: 9781479840816
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eBookVoices from the Midwest
by Sook Wilkinson
While the number of Asians in Michigan was small for a good portion of the state’s history, many Asian-derived communities have settled in the area and grown significantly over time. In <i>Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the ...
ISBN: 9780814339749
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eBookForm and Transformation in Asian American Literature
by Zhou, Xiaojing
<P>This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, ...
ISBN: 9780295802305
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eBookAsian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History [3 volumes]
An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History
by Xiaojian Zhao & Edward J.W. Park Ph.D.
<p>This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day.</p><p>• ...
ISBN: 9781598842401
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