Asian American History and Culture : an Encyclopedia.

Asian American History and Culture : an Encyclopedia.

With overview essays and more than 400 A-Z entries, this exhaustive encyclopedia documents the history of Asians in America from earliest contact to the present day. Organized topically by group, with an in-depth overview essay on each group, the encyclopedia examines the myriad ethnic groups and hi...

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Main Author: Ling, Huping
Other Authors: Austin, Allan W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Encyclopedias.
Asian Americans > History > Encyclopedias.
Asian Americans
Encyclopedias
History
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Topic Finder; Contributors; Preface; The Asian American Experience: History, Culture, and Scholarship; Adoption of Asian Children; Affirmative Action; Akaka, Daniel; Alien Land Law Movement; Amerasians and Multiracial Asian Americans; Angel Island Immigration Station; Anti-Asian Violence; Antimiscegenation Laws; Asian American Dance Theatre; Asian American Journalists Association; Asian American Movement; Asian American Studies; AsianWeek; Assimilation and Acculturation; Association for Asian American Studies; Association for Asian Studies.
  • Association of Asian/Pacific American ArtistsBilingual Education; Cable Act (1922); Comedy and Humor, Asian American; Demonstration Project for Asian Americans; Film and Filmmakers, Asian American; Gay and Lesbian Issues, Asian American; Historiography and Historians, Asian American; Immigration Act of 1924; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965; Interracial Marriage, Asian American; Labor and Employment, Asian American; Language, Asian American; McCarran-Walter Act (1952); Model Minority; Music and Musicians, Asian American; National Asian American Telecommunications Association.
  • Parenting and Child Rearing, Asian AmericanPolitics, Asian Americans in; Proposition 209 (1996); Religion, Asian American; Remittances, Asian American; Science and Scientists, Asian American; Theater, Asian American; Transnationalism, Asian American; Undocumented Immigration, Asian American; War Brides and War Brides Act (1945); Youth Gangs, Asian American; The Bangladeshi American Experience: History and Culture; The Burmese American Experience: History and Culture; The Cambodian American Experience: History and Culture; Anti-Cambodian Incidents.
  • Business and Entrepreneurship, Cambodian AmericanCommunity Organizations, Cambodian American; Deportation of Cambodians; Education, Cambodian American; Literature, Cambodian American; Music and Dance, Cambodian American; Political and Social Empowerment, Cambodian American; Religion, Cambodian American; Women, Cambodian American; The Chinese American Experience: History and Culture; Acculturation and the Chinese American Community; Act to Repeal the Chinese Exclusion Acts (1943); Anti-Chinese Riots; Banks, Chinese American; ""Bachelor Society""; Bemis, Polly; Bowl of Rice Movement.
  • Burlingame Treaty (1868)Business and Enrrepreneurship, Chinese American; Cameron House; Chennault, Anna C. (Chen Xiangmei); Chiang, Madame Kai-shek (Soong Mei-ling); Chin (Vincent) Incident; China Books and Periodicals Incorporated; China Lobby; China War Relief Association; Chinatowns; Chinatown (New York City); Chinatown (San Francisco); Chinatown in Suburban America; Chinatown on the Western Frontier; Chinese American Citizens Alliance; Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; Chinese Exclusion Act (1882); Chinese Hospital, San Francisco; Chinese Language Schools.

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