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A New History of Asian America

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

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A New History of Asian America

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America. A robust companion website features additional resources for students, including primary documents, a timeline, links, videos, and an image gallery. From the building of the transcontinental railroad to the celebrity of Jeremy Lin, people of Asian descent have been involved in and affected by the history of America. A New History of Asian America gives twenty-first-century students a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to this vital history.

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Routledge

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1135071063

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A New History of Asian America

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1135071055

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Koreatown, Los Angeles

Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

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Koreatown, Los Angeles

Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000—the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth took place following the passage of the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which dramatically altered US immigration policy and ushered in a new era of mass immigration, particularly from Asia and Latin America. By the 1970s, Korean immigrants were seeking to turn the area around Olympic Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles into a full-fledged "Koreatown," and over the following decades, they continued to build a community in LA. As Korean immigrants seized the opportunity to purchase inexpensive commercial and residential property and transformed the area to serve their community's needs, other minority communities in nearby South LA—notably Black and Latino working-class communities—faced increasing segregation, urban poverty, and displacement. Beginning with the early development of LA's Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and their aftermath, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee demonstrates how Korean Americans' lives were shaped by patterns of racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and cultural developments in the United States since 1965. Lee argues that building Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean immigrants and US-born Koreans eager to carve out a spatial niche within Los Angeles to serve as an economic and social anchor for their growing community. More than a dot on a map, Koreatown holds profound emotional significance for Korean immigrants across the nation as a symbol of their shared bonds and place in American society.

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Stanford University Press

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1503631834

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9781503631830

Koreatown, Los Angeles

Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

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Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream"

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Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

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Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

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How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II.

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Temple University Press

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1439902151

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Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

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Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

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How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II.

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Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

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Prewar Seattle and Japanese America

By: Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

In Claiming the Oriental Gateway, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee explores the various intersections of urbanization, ethnic identity, and internationalism in the experience of Japanese Americans in early twentieth-century Seattle. She examines the development and self-image of the city by documenting how U.S. expansion, Asian trans-Pacific migration, and internationalism were manifested locally—and how these forces affected residents’ relationships with one another and their surroundings. Lee details the significant role Japanese Americans—both immigrants and U.S. born citizens—played in the social and civic life of the city as a means of becoming American. Seattle embraced the idea of cosmopolitanism and boosted its role as a cultural and commercial "Gateway to the Orient" at the same time as it limited the ways in which Asian Americans could participate in the public schools, local art production, civic celebrations, and sports. She also looks at how Japan encouraged the notion of the "gateway" in its participation in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and International Potlach. Claiming the Oriental Gateway thus offers an illuminating study of the "Pacific Era" and trans-Pacific relations in the first four decades of the twentieth century.

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1439902135

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A New History of Asian America

A New History of Asian America

A New History of Asian America

A New History of Asian America

Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown, Los Angeles

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

Claiming the Oriental Gateway

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