Author : Sucheng Chan

Publisher : Twayne Publishers

Year : 1991

Call Number : E184.O6C454

Introduction : This book incisively examines the Asian American experience,weaving together the stories of Americans of Chinese,Japanese,Korean,Filipino and Asian Indian ancestry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The author includes an account of the influx of a million refugees and immigrants from Vietnam, Laos and Kampuchea since 1975. Economic survival, community structure, resistance to oppression, family formation, internment and military service during World War II, changing socioeconomic status, educational achievements, political activities and cultural expression are all deftly analyzed.