The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

by Yoo, David K.; Azuma, Eiichiro

• ISBN13: 9780197547915
• ISBN10: 0197547915
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-10-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American studies came from and what the future holds.

In this volume, thirty leading scholars offer original essays on a wide range of topics. The chapters trace Asian American history from the beginning of the migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American continent to Japanese American incarceration and Asian American participation in World War II, from the experience of exclusion, violence, and racism to the social and political activism of the late twentieth century. The authors explore many of the key aspects of the Asian American experience, including politics, economy, intellectual life, the arts, education, religion, labor, gender, family, urban development, and legal history.

The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History demonstrates how the roots of Asian American history are linked to visions of a nation marked by justice and equity and to a deep effort to participate in a global project aimed at liberation. The contributors to this volume attest to the ongoing importance of these ideals, showing how the mass politics, creative expressions, and the imagination that emerged during the 1960s are still relevant today. It is an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped change the face of the United States.

Author Biography

David K. Yoo is Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written and edited several books, including Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 and Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-1949.

Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors

Introduction
David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma

Part I. Migration Flows
1. Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and the American Empire
Keith L. Camacho

2. Towards A Hemispheric Asian American History
Jason Oliver Chang

3. South Asian America: Histories, Cultures, Politics
Sunaina Maira

4. Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i: People, Place, Culture
John P. Rosa

5. Southeast Asian Americans
Chia Youyee Vang

6. East Asian Immigrants
K. Scott Wong

7. Asian Canadian History
Henry Yu

Part II. Time Passages
8. Internment and World War II History
Eiichiro Azuma

9. Reconsidering Asian Exclusion in the United States
Kornel S. Chang

10. Cold War
Madeline Y. Hsu

11. Asian American Movement
Daryl Joji Maeda

Part III. Variations on Themes
12. A History of Asian International Adoption in the United States
Catherine Ceniza Choy

13. Confronting the Racial State of Violence: How Asian American History Can Reorient the Study of Race
Moon-Ho Jung

14. Theory and History
Lon Kurashige

15. Empire and War in Asian American History
Simeon Man

16. Queer Asian American Historiography
Amy Sueyoshi

17. The Study of Asian American Families
Xiaojian Zhao

Part IV. Engaging Historical Fields
18. Asian American Economic and Labor History
Sucheng Chan

19. Asian Americans, Politics, and History
Gordon H. Chang

20. Asian American Intellectual History
Augusto Espiritu

21. Asian American Religious History
Helen Jin Kim, Timothy Tseng, and David K. Yoo

22. Race, Space, and Place in Asian American Urban History
Scott Kurashige

23. From Asia to the United States, Around the World, and Back Again: New Directions in Asian American Immigration History
Erika Lee

24. Public History and Asian Americans
Franklin Odo

25. Asian American Legal History
Greg Robinson

26. Asian American Education History
Eileen H. Tamura

27. Not Adding and Stirring: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History and the Transformation of Asian America
Adrienne Ann Winans and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

Index