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Series Editors' Introduction | |
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Preface to the Second Edition | |
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Labor, Laws, and Love | |
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Sociology and Asian American Studies | |
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Theorizing Race, Gender, and Class | |
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Asian Americans: Their Material and Cultural Lives | |
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Getting There From Here: Goals, Scope, and Methodology | |
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Stretching Gender, Family, and Community Boundaries, 1840s-1930s | |
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Labor Recruitment, Exclusion Laws, and the Shortage of Women | |
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Stretching the Boundaries of Family | |
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Work and Changing Gender Relations | |
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Conclusion | |
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Changing Lives: World War II and the Postwar Years | |
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Changing Power Relations: The Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans | |
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Improved Lives: Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans | |
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Asian Americans and Postwar America: The Emerging Middle Class | |
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New Arrivals: The "Separated" Wives, War Brides, and Refugees | |
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Conclusion | |
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Contemporary Asian America: Immigration, Increasing Diversity, and Changing Resources | |
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Immigration Laws, Labor Needs, and Changing Gender Composition | |
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Economic Diversity Among Contemporary Asian Immigrants | |
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Gender Relations Among Salaried Professionals | |
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Gender Relations Among Self-Employed Entrepreneurs | |
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Gender Relations Among Wage Laborers | |
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Conclusion | |
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Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images | |
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Yellow Peril, Charlie Chan, and Suzie Wong | |
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Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images | |
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Controlling Images, Gender, and Cultural Nationalism | |
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Conclusion | |
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Beyond Dualisms: Constructing an Imagined Community | |
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Yellow as Neither Black nor White | |
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Asians as Neither Man nor Woman | |
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Race or Gender or Class | |
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Beyond Dualisms: Constructing an "Imagined Community" | |
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Works Cited | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |