History 152 - World History II: Books: Asia-Pacific Immigration

Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne's gripping story of Hawaii workers' struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.

Drawing from a host of familiar economic models and an unparalleled body of research, Hawkins analyses the entrepreneurial development and twentieth-century migration of the pineapple canning industry in Hawaii.

Americans First pays tribute to a generation of young men and women who, torn between loyalties to their parents' traditions and their growing identification with America and tormented by the pervasive racism of wartime America, served their country with patriotism and courage.

The first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out. The author explores how Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a "gatekeeping nation."

This superb anthology, a diverse and illuminating collection of primary documents and stories by Chinese Americans, provides an intimate and textured history of the Chinese in America from their arrival during the California Gold Rush to the present.

The author 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 these communities.

Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. The author investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them.

From the perspectives of ethnic studies, history, literary criticism, and legal studies, the original essays in this volume examine the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation.

This book traces the story of Koreans in Hawai'i from their first arrival to the eve of Korea's liberation in 1945. Using newly uncovered evidence, it challenges previously held ideas on the social origins of immigrants.

In 1924 seventeen-year-old Peter Hyun arrived in Hawaii with three younger siblings, leaving behind family and friends in Japanese-occupied Seoul and the Korean community of exiles in Shanghai. The early chapters of this spirited autobiographical account recount Hyun's life as a young Korean coming of age in Hawaii and as a college student studying philosophy and theatre arts in Indiana.

Korean and Asian Americans may experience rapid intergenerational upward mobility and integration, but still be subject racialization and exclusion. This challenges the assimilation paradigm that immigrants and their children will assimilate and continue to achieve full integration and acceptance in the mainstream society.

Challenging the prevailing view of Hawaii as a mythical "racial paradise," Gary Okihiro presents this history of a systematic anti-Japanese movement in the islands from the time migrant workers were brought to the sugar cane fields until the end of World War II.

Illuminating a critical moment in ethnic identity formation among this first generation of Americans of Japanese descent (the nisei), the author shows how the war-time service and the post-war success of these men contributed to the simplistic view of Japanese Americans as a model minority in Hawai'i.

Hawaii -- History: Working Class, Foreign Workers, Labor Unions, Plantation Life

Locating and defining Waipahu -- Oahu Sugar -- Along Waipahu St. and down Depot Rd. -- Some culture we retain to this day -- Along Farrington Highway -- World War II -- Tatsuichi Ota -- Life in Waipahu -- Notes on the history of Waipahu

Slightly edited transcriptions of interviews conducted by the Center for Oral History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, with retired workers and residents of Pioneer Mill Company, located on the west side of Maui.

Transcripts of oral history interviews recorded 1996-1997. Access online.

Contains documents on immigration including laws and treaties, Supreme Court cases, referenda, political platforms, debates, government reports, historical articles, and letters. Contains primary source material.

These two-volumes are the key to opening the door to the immigrant experience in the United States. This set covers 161 nonindigenous cultural groups currently living in the United States.

An anthology of articles on the laws and attitudes towards Asian-Americans throughout the history of the United States including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and Koreans.

Offering a rich and insightful road map of Asian American history as it has evolved over more than 200 years, this book marks the first systematic attempt to take stock of this field of study. It examines, comments, and questions the changing assumptions and contexts underlying the experiences and contributions of an incredibly diverse population of Americans.

Using Japanese-language sources, oral histories and other previously neglected material, these scholars have illuminated the world of issei labor leaders, nisei soldiers, nikkei women writers and many others.

The golden door : immigration at the dawn of the 20th century -- An era of uncertainty : immigration from 1965 to today -- Stirring the melting pot : social and cultural change -- The challenge of assimilation, and more.

This work, designed for students and interested readers, provides the first in-depth examination of recent South Asian immigrant groups - their history and background, current facts, comparative cultures, and contributions to contemporary American life. (Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Nepalis, and Afghans.)