Overview

Since the first three documented Chinese arrived in this country in 1848, more than six million Asians have followed. The huge immigrations of recent years have prompted a surge of interest in the new Asian American experience. In Asian Americans, these immigrants and their families present their own stories-why they came to America and what it means to be Asian in America today.

Full Product Details

9781565840232

Table of Contents

Reviews

A welcome look at the diversity of Asian American cultures. Reference and Research Book News No reader . . . can go away from the book without a sense of the immense complexity of Asian America today. The Journal of Asian Studies

A welcome look at the diversity of Asian American cultures. <i>Reference and Research Book News</i> No reader . . . can go away from the book without a sense of the immense complexity of Asian America today. <i>The Journal of Asian Studies</i>

"""A welcome look at the diversity of Asian American cultures."" Reference and Research Book News ""No reader . . . can go away from the book without a sense of the immense complexity of Asian America today."" The Journal of Asian Studies"

A welcome look at the diversity of Asian American cultures. Reference and Research Book News No reader . . . can go away from the book without a sense of the immense complexity of Asian America today. The Journal of Asian Studies

Author Information

Joann Faung Jean Lee is the author of the oral histories Asian Americans and Asian Americans in the Twenty-first Century, both published by The New Press, and of Asian American Actors: Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television. She currently teaches at William Paterson University and previously taught at Queens College, CUNY, and at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Lee was formerly a broadcast journalist for CNN. She lives in Northvale, New Jersey.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available