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Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages)
Language
English
Description
Based on interviews with second-generation Chinese-and Korean-Americans, "this book is filled with a number of illuminating empirical findings" (American Journal of Sociology).
In Becoming Asian American, Nazli Kibria draws upon extensive interviews she conducted with second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans in Boston and Los Angeles who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s to explore the dynamics of race, identity, and adaptation within...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
viii, 230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Tony Hsieh to Amy Chua to Jeremy Lin, Chinese Americans are now arriving at the highest levels of American business, civic life, and culture. But what makes this story of immigrant ascent unique is that Chinese Americans are emerging at just the same moment when China has emerged - and indeed may displace America - at the center of the global scene. What does it mean to be Chinese American in this moment? And how does exploring that question...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Conventionally, US immigration history has been understood through the lens of restriction and those who have been barred from getting in. In contrast, The Good Immigrants considers immigration from the perspective of Chinese elites--intellectuals, businessmen, and students--who gained entrance because of immigration exemptions. Exploring a century of Chinese migrations, Madeline Hsu looks at how the model minority characteristics of many Asian Americans...
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Does it migrate, become malleable or transmuted? What is authentic, sacred, kitsch? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, acclaimed photographer Wing Young Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the United States, and in China. Huie, the youngest of six children and the only one born in the United States, grew up in Duluth,...
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