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The Coming Man from Canton
Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously...
American Post-Judaism
Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
How do American Jews identify as both Jewish and American? American Post-Judaism argues that Zionism and the Holocaust, two anchors of contemporary American Jewish identity, will no longer be centers of identity formation for future generations of American Jews. Shaul Magid articulates a new, post-ethnic...
Asian American Dreams
The Emergence of an American People
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2000
The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group
This 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...
by Florante Peter Ibanez, Roselyn Estepa Ibanez
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
One of Carson�s most distinct features is its diversity. The city is roughly one-quarter each Hispanic, African American, white, and Asian/ Pacific Islander. This last group�s vast majority are Filipinos who settled as early as the 1920s as farmworkers, U.S. military recruits, entrepreneurs, medical...
by Kevin L. Nadal, Filipino-American National Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
After the Spanish-American War in 1898, many Filipinos immigrated to New York City, mostly as students, enrolling at local institutions like Columbia University and New York University. Some arrived via Ellis Island as early as 1915, while Filipino military servicemen and Navy seafarers settled in New...
by Thuy Vo Dang, Linda Trinh Vo, Tram Le
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
Vietnamese Americans have transformed the social, cultural, economic, and political life of Orange County, California. Previously, there were Vietnamese international students, international or war brides, or military personnel living in the United States, but the majority arrived as refugees and...
On the Margins of Tibet
Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of...
Freedom with Violence
Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against...
by Kathleen Neils Conzen
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Minnesota is often associated with its Scandinavian heritage, but in fact Germans are the largest single immigrant group in Minnesota history and were the largest ancestry group in the 2000 census. Author Kathleen Neils Conzen tells the story of German Americans and their profound influence on Minnesota...
by Olivia Cueva-Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Under Spanish, Mexican, and American flags, the Los Angeles harbor area has developed many industries and businesses that survived on Mexican labor, supporting families of Mexican origin for more than a century. Pioneering Mexican Americans have worked the railroads, fields, canneries, plants, refineries,...
Albion's Seed:Four British Folkways in America
Four British Folkways in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1989
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having...
Discriminating Sex
White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy...
Dinéjí Na`nitin
Navajo Traditional Teachings and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Traditional teachings derived from stories and practices passed through generations lie at the core of a well-balanced Navajo life. These teachings are based on a very different perspective of the physical and spiritual world than that found in general American culture. Dinéjí Na`nitin is an introduction...
La Calle
Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical,...