Asian Americans: Emerging Minorities

by Kitano, Harry H.L.; Daniels, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780133151855
• ISBN10: 0133151859
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This second edition was triggered in part by the largely surprised reaction by many to the publication of the 1990 census figures, which showed that nearly 7.3 million persons--almost 3 percent of the U.S. population--were Asian Americans. This quantitative change, which came as no surprise to us, seems to have produced a qualitative change not only in the ways in which most Americans regard Asian Americans but also in the ways in which many Asian Americans regard themselves.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The Immigrant Image	p. 2
Who is an American?	p. 4
Who Wants to Be an American?	p. 5
Models of Immigrant Groups	p. 7
Immigration Laws and Their Effects	p. 12
Before 1924	p. 13
The 1930s	p. 15
The 1940s	p. 16
1950-1965	p. 17
The 1965 Immigration Act and Beyond	p. 18
The Chinese: The Early Years	p. 21
The Sojourner Pattern	p. 21
The Chinese Diaspora	p. 22
Anti-Chinese Sentiment	p. 23
Chinese Exclusion	p. 25
The Structure of Chinese American Society	p. 25
Chinese American Institutions	p. 27
Urban Chinese America	p. 30
Outwitting the Immigration Laws	p. 32
The Chinese: After 1943	p. 38
Changes in Image	p. 39
Demographic Changes	p. 40
The Cold War	p. 43
The "Model Minority"	p. 51
The Japanese: The Early Years	p. 56
The Structure of Japanese American Society	p. 57
The Anti-Japanese Movement	p. 59
Japanese Immigrant Organizations	p. 60
Japanese American Enterprises	p. 62
The Prewar Japanese American Community	p. 63
Exile and Incarceration	p. 65
The Struggle for Redress	p. 66
Japanese Americans: After 1946	p. 71
U.S.-Japanese Relations	p. 71
The Issei	p. 72
The Nisei	p. 74
The Sansei	p. 78
Recent Events	p. 81
The Filipinos	p. 83
The Pensionados	p. 85
The Second Wave	p. 86
The Third Wave	p. 90
Asian Indians	p. 96
On the West Coast	p. 97
Mangoo Ram (1886-1980)	p. 98
The Gadar Movement	p. 99
The Struggle for Citizenship	p. 100
In the East and the Midwest	p. 102
The 1946 Act	p. 103
The Structure of the Asian Indian Community	p. 105
The Future	p. 108
The Koreans	p. 112
Korean Immigration	p. 113
Occupational Adjustment	p. 119
Los Angeles Riot of 1992	p. 121
The Christian Churches	p. 122
Family and Kinship Ties	p. 123
Geographic Adaptation	p. 125
The Pacific Islanders	p. 129
Samoans	p. 130
Guamanians	p. 134
Hawaiians	p. 136
Common Problems	p. 141
The Southeast Asians	p. 144
Who is a Refugee?	p. 145
U.S. Policy Toward Refugees	p. 147
The Two Waves of Southeast Asian Refugees	p. 147
The Vietnamese	p. 148
Laotians (Hmong)	p. 153
Cambodians (Kampucheans)	p. 155
Adaptation	p. 158
The Present Status of Asian Americans	p. 170
The 1990 Census	p. 170
Higher Education	p. 173
Family	p. 176
Occupation and Employment	p. 177
Unemployment	p. 179
Income and Poverty	p. 179
Corporate Representation	p. 180
Politics	p. 181
Naturalization	p. 182
Social Problems	p. 183
Mass Media	p. 186
Marital Assimilation	p. 187
Adaptation of Asian Americans	p. 192
Prejudice and Discrimination	p. 194
Civic Assimilation	p. 199
The Asian American Model	p. 199
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 205
Appendix: 1990 Census Data	p. 209
Index	p. 212
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