{"product_id":"the-making-of-asian-america-a-history-paperback","title":"The Making of Asian America: A History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErika Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"comprehensive...fascinating\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject, with a new afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. \"In her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States\" (\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Making of Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both \"despised minorities\" and \"model minorities,\" revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished fifty years after the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these \"powerful Asian American stories...are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdue\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e). But more than that, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Asian America \u003c\/i\u003eis an \"epic and eye-opening\" (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978444276013,"sku":"9781476739410","price":23.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/WXZKVkRoMkpnK2Y4ZlpqMG0ybW9ZZz09.webp?v=1775805195","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-making-of-asian-america-a-history-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}