Strangers From a Different Shore; A History of Asian Americans
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees...
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
Preface to the New Edition: Confronting "Cultural Literacy": The Redefining of America1From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling32Overblown with Hope: The First Wave of Asian Immigration213Gam Saan Haak: The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America794Raising Cane: The World of Plantation Hawaii1325Ethnic Solidarity: The Settling of Japanese America1796Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America2307Struggling Against Colonialism: Koreans in America2708"The Tide of Turbans": Asian Indians in America2949Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos31510The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race35711"Strangers" at the Gates Again: Post-196540612Breaking Silences: Community of Memory47213One-Tenth of the Nation: Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century492A Note of Appreciation511Notes513Index576About the Author592
