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Dynamics of Ethnic Identity: Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia

Jae-Hyup Lee - History - 1998 - 218 pages
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity

Sheng-mei Ma - Social Science - 2000 - 214 pages
Asian American resistance to Orientalism -- the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East -- is usually assumed. And yet, as this provocative work ...
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Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends, and Lore of the Middle Kingdom

K. S. Tom - Social Science - 1989 - 182 pages
For readers of Chinese descent, this entertaining book adds to understanding their heritage. For others, it brings an appreciation of things Chinese.
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Making and Remaking Asian America: 1850 - 1990

Social Science - 1993 - 360 pages
This is the first comprehensive study of how U. S. immigration policies have shaped--demographically, economically, and socially--the six largest Asian American communities.
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The Voices of Amerasians: Ethnicity, Identity, and Empowerment in ...

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu - Social Science - 1999 - 200 pages
Amerasians are persons of American and Asian ethnic heritage who have appeared as a group mainly in the past forty years. Beginning with the massive involvement of the United ...
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The Chinese Laundryman: A Study of Social Isolation

Paul C.P. Siu - Business & Economics - 1987 - 364 pages
The definitive scholarly study of Chinese laundries and those who worked in them in the U.S. Considered a classic piece by students of overseas Chinese and Asian American ...
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Forever Foreigners Or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today

Mia Tuan - History - 1998 - 220 pages
Examines the meaning of ethnicity for later-generation Chinese and Japanese Americans, and asks how the racialized ethnic experience differs from the white ethnic experience ...
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Village “Contracts” in Tokugawa Japan: Fifty Specimens with English ...

Dan Fenno Henderson - Social Science - 2012 - 252 pages
There are assembled here the Japanese (sorobun) originals and English translations of over fifty private agreements, mostly dating from the 19th century and selected from ...
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