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Asian American Children A Historical Handbook and Guide
Benson Tong
Book Code: GR3042
ISBN: 0-313-33042-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33042-1
288 pages, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2004
List Price: $60.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 7 x 10
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Description: The presence of Asian immigrants and citizens has a long history in the United States. Asian American Children: A Historical Handbook and Guide provides insights into the diverse experience of these children and their families from their first appearance here to the present. Essays review topics such as identity, family structures, labor, gender, and class. Selected primary documents review topics such as racial quotas, biculturalism, and refugees. This is the first work to cover the historical and the contemporary experience of these children from a multiplicity of views, using essays and documents. Beginning c. 1850, this work relates the experiences and context in which diverse groups of Asian American children lived their lives. The voices of children, included in the primary documents, provide a vivid narrative of immigrant life over the past 150 years. While the lives of children were generally included in historical narratives of the country, a focus specifically on children allows the reader to more fullyunderstand the central place of family in the economic and social development of a nation.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Interpretive Essays
  • Introduction: The Worldview of Asian American Children by Benson Tong
  • Invisible Historical Players: Uncovering the Meanings and Expereinces of Children in Early Asian American History by Yong Chen
  • The Convergence of the Twain: Representations of Asians in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1888-1910 by Claudia Nelson
  • Growing up in "Hop Alley": Chinese American Youth in St. Louis during the Early 20th Century by Huping Ling
  • Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese American Children and Adolesents during the Internment Era by Benson Tong
  • Gender, Family, Community: Cultural Reconstruction among Teenage Laotionan Girls in Northern California by Bindi Shah
  • Ensuring Upward Mobility: Obligations of Children of Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
  • Transnationalism among Second-Generation Asian Indians by Jean Bacon
  • Documents
  • First Experiences in America by Yan Phou Lee
  • Immigration Interview Transcripts
  • An Agreement to Assist a Young Girl Names Loi Yau
  • Diary by Ah Quin
  • The Curious Case of Ah-Top (A Chinese Legend)
  • The Children of Chinatown in San Francisco by Theodore Wores
  • Quiet Oddessey by Mary Paik Lee
  • A Native Filipino's Impressions of America by Anonymous
  • Juan, the Story of a Filipino Boy by Helen P. Beattie
  • Gong Lum et al. v Rice et al.(1927) United States Supreme Court
  • My Contact with Orientals by Miss Lentz (Teacher in Franklin High School, Seatlle)
  • Interview with Miss Chiyo Otera Conducted by William C. Smith by Chiyo Otera
  • Life History of J. Lim by J. Lim
  • Interview with Thomas W. Chinn Interview conducted by Ruth Teiser
  • Buddhism in the United States War Relocation Authority, Community Analysis Section
  • The Autobiography of Wayne Hung Wong by Wayne Hung Wong
  • My Viewpoint of the Evacuation by Stanley Hayami
  • The War Stamps or Bond That You Bought Today by Fumiye Ando
  • Education Section: Final Report, 1945 by Lloyd A. Garrison Stanley Hayami Diary by Stanley Hayami
  • Letter from Ontario, Oregon, 1944 by Shirley Sugahiro
  • The Homeless Asian American by Lee Fang
  • Soukanthone "Aly" Vonckamchanch Interview conducted by Sheri A. Saunders
  • Petition for Immigration of Amerasian Children by Unidentified Vietnamese Women
  • Letter to U.S. Congress from Amerasian Youth by Lily Lee
  • Life History Interview: Niloufer Aziz Interview conducted by Jean Bacon
  • When Being Best Isn't Good Enough: Why Yat-Pang Won't Be Going to Berkeley by Linda Matthews
  • Everybody Seemed to Be Either White, Black, or a Full Race by Lisa Graham
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2004043643
LCC Class: E184
Dewey Class: 305
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