Recollecting Early Asian America Essays in Cultural History

Name: Recollecting Early Asian America Essays in Cultural History
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ISBN: 9781566399647

ISBN-10: 1566399645

ISBN-13: 9781566399647

Edition: 2002

Authors: Josephine Lee, Imogene Lim, Yuko Matsukawa

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These essays ask readers to reconsider who represents Asian America and what constitutes its history. Inderdisciplinary in approach, they address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from 'official' histories.

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 8/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Imogene Lim is University-College Professor of Anthroplogy at Malaspina University.

Yuko Matsukawa has taught American literature and women's studies at Rhode Island College, Tufts University, and the State University of New York at Brockport.



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Acknowledgments



Introduction




Pacific Entry, Pacific Century: Chinatowns and Chinese Canadian History




Chinese Camps and Chinatowns: Chinese Mining Settlements in the North American West




Artifacts of a Lost City: Arnold Genthe's Pictures of Old Chinatown and its Intertexts




The Komagata Maru: Memory and Mobilization Among the South Asian Diaspora in North America




Community Destroyed? Assessing the Impact of the Loss of Community on Japanese Americans During World War II




From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration, Exclusion, and Repatriation, 1920-1940




The Sojourner as Astronaut: Paul Siu in Global Perspective




Between Fact and Fiction: Literary Portraits of Chinese Americans in the 1905 Anti-American Boycott




From Exchange Visitor to Permanent Resident: Reconsidering Filipino Nurse Migration as a Post-1965 Phenomenon




China Latina




Exotic Explorations: Travels to Asia and the Pacific in Early Cinema




Representing the Oriental in Nineteenth-Century Trade Cards




Dissecting the "Devil Doctor": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu




Footprints from the Past: Passing Racial Stereotypes in the Hardy Boys




Face-ing/De-Face-ing Racism: Physiognomy as Ethnic Marker in Early Eurasian/Amerasian Women's Texts




Yan Phou Lee on the Asian American Frontier




"A Different Mode of Speech": Yone Noguchi in Meiji America




Asian Americans in Progress: College Plays 1937-1955




The Americanization of Americans: The Phenomenon of Nisei Internment Camp Theater




Reclaiming Sui Sin Far



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