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Asian american studies nowtruly represents the enormous changes. America for americans a history of xenophobia in the united states. Capital and local community in the making of contemporary asian america. Erika lee is the granddaughter of chinese immigrants who entered the united states through both angel island and ellis island. Lees film tracks the life of a neighborhood during a twentyfourhour span. Oct 18, 2017 the making of asian america shows how generations of asian immigrants and their americanborn descendants have made and remade asian american life, from sailors who came on the first transpacific ships in the 1500 to the japanese americans incarcerated during world war ii. The making of asian america tells the littleknown history of asian americans and their role in american life, from the arrival of the first asians in the americas to the presentday. A history she suggests that asianamericans constantly cycle between being labeled good asians versus bad asians.
Oct 14, 2015 the making of asian america chronicles the past and connects it to the present. But as awardwinning historian erika lee reminds us, asian americans also have deep roots in the country. Meanwhile, asian immigration has been steadily rising, especially from china and india. An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the asian american experience in one volume. View soci 270 discussion 4 from soci 270 at columbia college. Go to view document outline table of contents table of contents writing book lists existing books nonfiction interest area. But more than that, the making of asian america is an epic and eyeopening minneapolis startribune new way of understanding america itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today. Erika lee, director of the immigration history research center at the university of. The making of asian america a history by erika lee. Four questions with historian erika lee the university of minnesota professor speaks on campus on oct.
Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882 1943, erika lee explores the complex idioms of ideology and policy that surrounded the chinese exclusion act and its sixtyyear span. By the time erika lee arrived at adulthood, the antiasian sentiment her grandparents experienced had faded. At americas gates is the first book devoted entirely to both chinese immigrants and the american immigration officials who sought to keep them out. Asian americans are widely believed to be passive and compliant participants in the u. Soci 270 discussion 4 in the chinese exclusion example. The making of asian america in the past fifty years, asian americans have helped change the face of america and are now the fastest growing group in the united states.
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