The Making of Asian America: A History
Written by Erika Lee
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States. From the sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and South Asian immigrants who were recruited to work in the United States only to face massive racial discrimination, and from the Asian exclusion laws of the nineteenth century to Japanese American incarceration 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. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States.
Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.
Editor's Note
Well-researched…
“The Making of Asian America” is a well-researched book that gives you exceeding confidence that the historian has done her homework for you. This history is incredibly well-paced, with a thoughtful flow of historical records, stats, and stories of individuals. Somehow it manages to give attention to specific communities while also addressing the thread of the entire Asian American experience.
Erika Lee
Erika Lee is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
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Reviews for The Making of Asian America
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Informative and comprehensive history of Asians in the new world. Narrator sounded like a robot. Her tone very flat and fake.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A thorough history of Asians in the Americas that highlights the obstacles Asian-Americans have overcome and continuing obstacles they face.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An amazing overview of the history of Asians in America. This is a tale that’s needs to be heard by all Americans.