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1. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

   By Jennifer Snow

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Diaspora and Class Consciousness

   Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

   By Shanshan Lan

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Politicizing Asian American Literature

   Towards a Critical Multiculturalism

   By Youngsuk Chae

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. Modeling Minority Women

   Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction

   By Reshmi J. Hebbar

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing...

   Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
5. Global Spaces of Chinese Culture

   Diasporic Chinese Communities in the United States and Germany

   By Sylvia Van Ziegert

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book is an exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. It not only compares the local conditions of the Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
6. Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race

   The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School

   By Rowena Robles

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based admissions policies in an elite public high school in San Francisco. The book analyzes the arguments put forth by plaintiffs in and the media's depiction of the...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
7. Chicago Korean-Americans

   Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community

   By Jung-Sun Park

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   Based on a Chicago Korean-American case, this dissertation examines the transformation of identity and politics in a transnational immigrant community in the late 1980s and early 1990s....

   Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge
8. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

   Demystifying the Model Minority

   By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

   Published June 1st 2006 by Routledge
9. Korean American Women

   Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves

   By Jenny Pak

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels,...

   Published April 17th 2006 by Routledge
10. Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese

    Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community

    By Gaku Kinoshita

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i....

    Published February 27th 2006 by Routledge