Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics
Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995
1st Edition
By Eva Armentrout Ma
February 27, 2015
Focusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations....
Diaspora and Class Consciousness: Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago
1st Edition
By Shanshan Lan
October 03, 2013
This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English ...
Taiwanese American Transnational Families: Women and Kin Work
1st Edition
By Maria W.L. Chee
August 28, 2013
This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in ...
Mobile Homes: Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature
1st Edition
By Su-Ching Huang
May 01, 2013
The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000....
The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown: A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity
1st Edition
By Erika A. Muse
May 01, 2013
The purpose of this book is to provide valuable anthropological data on the identity construction of a rapidly growing Chinese Christian population in the United States. As more and more Chinese of different generations and varying cultural backgrounds practice evangelical Christianity, the meaning...
Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans: Demystifying the Model Minority
1st Edition
By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas
January 11, 2013
This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....
Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
1st Edition
By Gaku Kinoshita
December 15, 2012
This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i....
Cultural Identity in Kindergarten: A Study of Asian Indian Children
1st Edition
By Susan Laird Mody
October 29, 2012
The purpose of this study is to explore play and story as forms of early childhood discourse in which cultural identity is both constructed and expressed in the Asian Indian community....
Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924
1st Edition
By Jennifer Snow
October 10, 2012
This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant ...
Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ho
June 28, 2012
This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how ...
Korean American Women: Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves
1st Edition
By Jenny Pak
June 28, 2012
Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels, ...
Politicizing Asian American Literature: Towards a Critical Multiculturalism
1st Edition
By Youngsuk Chae
December 09, 2011
This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’ ...