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Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics


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

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

1st Edition

By Jennifer Snow
October 10, 2012

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 ...

Politicizing Asian American Literature Towards a Critical Multiculturalism

Politicizing Asian American Literature: Towards a Critical Multiculturalism

1st Edition

By Youngsuk Chae
December 09, 2011

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’ ...

Chicago Korean-Americans Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community

Chicago Korean-Americans: Identity and Politics in a Transnational Community

1st Edition

By Jung-Sun Park
December 15, 2007

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....

Mobile Homes Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

Mobile Homes: Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

1st Edition

By Su-Ching Huang
January 13, 2006

The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000....

Hometown Chinatown A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995

Hometown Chinatown: A History of Oakland's Chinese Community, 1852-1995

1st Edition

By Eva Armentrout Ma
November 29, 2000

Focusing on the local history of the Chinese in Oakland, California, this study examines common stereotypes in the early Chinese community and Chinatown organizations....

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