Binding: Paperback
Description: The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small disconnected and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self - identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness including the murder of Vincent Chin a Chinese American by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid - like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non - Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans. Helen Zia the daughter of Chinese immigrants was born in the 1950s when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. Written for both Asian Americans the fastest - growing population in the United States and non - Asians Asian American Dreams argues that America can no longer afford to ignore these emergent vital and singular American people.
Title: Asian American Dreams The Emergence Of An American People
Author(s): Zia Helen
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374527365
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/15/2001
Category: Black & Asian Studies