An edition of Asian America
(2017)
Asian America
a primary source reader
by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Kevin Scott Wong, and Jason Oliver Chang
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An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields. from law to visual culture to politics, and covers key historical and cultural developments, enabling students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century. The primary sources, organized around keywords, concern multiple geographies and sociopolitical movements, making this compendium valuable for a wide range of historical, ethnic, and cultural study undergraduate programs.
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Asian America: a primary source reader
2017, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents
Asian American history : an introduction / K. Scott Wong, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, and Jason Oliver Chang (with Quan Tran)
pt. I. Immigration, migration, and citizenship
The Naturalization Act of 1790
Saint Malo : a Lacustrine village in Louisiana / Patrick Lafcadio Hearn
People v. Hall (1854)
Joining the tracks for the First Transcontinental Railway, Promontory, Utah Territory, 1869
Anti-Chinese immigration and naturalization laws
The Page Act of 1875
In re Ah Yup (1878)
The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
The Scott Act of 1888
The Geary Act of 1892
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898)
The 1902 Scott Act
Gentlemen's agreement of 1907
Immigration Act of 1917 (Barred Zone Act)
Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922)
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924)
The Philippine Independence Act (Tydings-McDuffie Act) (1934)
The Magnuson Act (1943)
The 1945 War Bride Act
The McCarran-Walter Act (1952)
The Hart-Celler Act (1965)
The Indochina Migration and Refugee and Assistance Act (1975)
The Refugee Act of 1980
Statement on signing the American Competiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act (2000)
Cambodian-Americans confronting deportation / Olesia Plokhii and Tom Mashberg
pt. II. War and imperialism
"Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation (1898)
Queen Liliuokalani's letter of protest
Japanese on the West Coast / C.B. Munson
Memorandum on C.B. Munson's report "Japanese on the West Coast" / John Franklin Carter
How to spot a Jap / Department of the U.S. Army
Anti-Japan war posters
Executive Order No. 9066 (1942)
A Declaration of Policy of the Japanese American Citizens League (1942)
Internment photographs / Dorothea League
Leave Clearance interview questions (1943)
Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry (1943)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
No-No boy (1957) / John Okada
Speech on the Far East (1950) / Dean Acheson
Address on the situation in Korea (1950) / Harry S. Truman
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
My Lai Massacre : court testimony
Vietnam War images
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon (1968) / Eddie Adams
The terror or war (1972) / Nick Ut (Huynh Cong Ut)
Fall of Saigon (1975) / Hubert Van Es
Vietnamese refugees arrive at Camp Pendleton (1975) / Don Barletti
"1.5-Generation" Southeast Asian American writers
Bryan Thao Worra
Bao Phi
Anida Yoeu Ali
Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu (2003)
pt. III. Race, rights, and representation
Chang and Eng advertisements
Roughing it / Mark Twain
"The Chinese Question" and political cartoons
Rough on rats
Rock Springs Massacre (1885)
Some reasons for Chinese exclusion : meat vs. rice / American Federation of Labor
"La Mestización" cartoon
Four bids for canal labor (1906) / New York Times
The unparalleled invasion (1910) / Jack London
In the land of the free (1909) / Sui Sin Far
Japs keep moving : this is a white man's neighborhood (ca. 1920)
Watsonville Riots (1930) / Los Angeles Times
Be American / Carlos Bulosan
Success story of one minority group in U.S. / U.S. News and World Report
The basis of Black Power / Stokely Carmichael
The emergence of Yellow Power in American / Amy Uyematsu
San Francisco State College Strike (1968-1969)
Interview with Yuri Kochiyama (2006)
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Japanese Latin Americans to receive compensation for internment during World War II / Department of Justice
U.A.W. says : if you sell in America, build in America (1981)
The wheel of justice : the killing of Vincent Chin and the death of the Motor City / Frank H. Wu
Korean American businessman recalls L.A. riots / Theresa Walker
Battle hymn of the Tiger Mother (interview with Amy Chua
Asian-American dilemma : good news is bad news / Eric Liu
Abercrombie & Glitch : Asian Americans rip retailer for stereotypes on t-shirts / Jenny Strasburg.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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