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Author | : Judy Yung |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295802057 |
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Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle. Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life.
Author | : Judy Yung |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738531304 |
Download San Francisco's Chinatown Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An evocative collection of vintage photographs traces the history of San Francisco's Chinatown, the largest and oldest Chinese enclave outside of Asia, from the Gold Rush era to the present day, capturing the realities of everyday life, as well as the changes in the community, the challenges confronting the Chinese immigrants, and its rich cultural heritage. Original.
Author | : H. Mark Lai |
Publisher | : San Francisco Study Center |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : K. Scott Wong |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674045319 |
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World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, K. Scott Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years. Long the victims of racial prejudice and discriminatory immigration practices, Chinese Americans struggled to transform their image in the nation's eyes. As Americans racialized the Japanese enemy abroad and interned Japanese Americans at home, Chinese citizens sought to distinguish themselves by venturing beyond the confines of Chinatown to join the military and various defense industries in record numbers. Wong offers the first in-depth account of Chinese Americans in the American military, tracing the history of the 14th Air Service Group, a segregated unit comprising over 1,200 men, and examining how their war service contributed to their social mobility and the shaping of their ethnic identity. Americans First pays tribute to a generation of young men and women who, torn between loyalties to their parents' traditions and their growing identification with America and tormented by the pervasive racism of wartime America, served their country with patriotism and courage. Consciously developing their image as a "model minority," often at the expense of the Japanese and Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans created the pervasive image of Asian Americans that still resonates today.
Author | : Norman K Denzin |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2002-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803975453 |
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In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture. Acute, richly illustrated and timely, the book deepens our understanding of the politics of race and the symbolic complexity of segregation and discrimination.
Author | : Judy Yung |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2018-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1319077870 |
Download The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island will introduce students to a broader and more inclusive vision of U.S. immigration history and, ultimately, a better understanding of the world we live in. What is uniquely important about this book are the personal stories and viewpoints of proponents and opponents of the Chinese exclusion laws; of Chinese immigrants who posed as “paper sons” and “paper daughters” to evade the exclusion laws; and of immigration officials who held strong convictions about how the immigration laws should be enforced. The introduction provides students with an over-arching historical, socio-economic, and political context by which to understand the compilation of primary documents that follow. For the same reason, each document has its own headnote with background information about the author and comments on its historical significance. Further pedagogical aids include a Chronology, new Questions for Consideration, and a revised Selected Bibliography.
Author | : Eddie Huang |
Publisher | : Spiegel & Grau |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Downloadable audio books |
ISBN | : 0679644881 |
Download Fresh Off the Boat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Taiwanese American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Dark Horse Comics |
Total Pages | : 2539 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1506705146 |
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This is the most comprehensive guide ever published, covering all things Masters of the Universe and Princess of Power from 1982 through today! The universe of He-Man and She-Ra is full of mystery. And thanks to over four thousand individual entries covering characters, beasts, vehicles, locations, weapons and magic, you can learn the secrets of this entire universe!
Author | : Xiaojian Zhao |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1540 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1598842404 |
Download Asian Americans [3 volumes] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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. This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events, important policies, and notable individuals. Written by leading scholars in their fields of expertise and authorities in diverse professions, the entries devote attention to diverse Asian and Pacific Islander American groups as well as the roles of women, distinct socioeconomic classes, Asian American political and social movements, and race relations involving Asian Americans.
Author | : Sang Chi |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience [2 volumes] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years. In 1848, the "First Wave" of Asian immigration arrived in the United States. By the first decade of the 21st century, Asian Americans were the nation's fastest growing racial group. Through a far-ranging array of primary source documents, Voices of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Experience shares what it was like for these diverse peoples to live and work in the United States, for better and for worse. Organized chronologically by ethnicity, the book covers a panoply of ethnic groups, including recent Asian immigrants and mixed race/mixed heritage Asian Americans. There is also a topical section that showcases views on everything from politics to class to gender dynamics, underscoring that the Asian American population is not—nor has it ever been—monolithic. In choosing material, the editors strove to make the volume as comprehensive as possible. Thus, readers will discover documents written by transnational, adopted, and homosexual Asian Americans, as well as documents written from particular religious positions.