Asian-American Experience on File

This volume details the experience of a wide variety of Asian Americans. Attention is given to those from China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, Japan, and Korea.

Coverage includes:
• Asian and Pacific Background: Asian geography; background on China, Japan/Korea, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, Southeast Asia; and religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Shintoism
• The Early Immigrants (Pre-1900):...
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This volume details the experience of a wide variety of Asian Americans. Attention is given to those from China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, Japan, and Korea.

Coverage includes:
• Asian and Pacific Background: Asian geography; background on China, Japan/Korea, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, Southeast Asia; and religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Shintoism
• The Early Immigrants (Pre-1900): Demographics of different immigrant groups; Hawaiian sugar plantations; the building of the Central Pacific Railroad; and Chinese labor in mining towns
• The Early 20th Century (1900-1945): The rise of Japanese and Filipino immigration; Chinese Americans after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; integration of Indians in Mexico and the United States; and Asian Americans in the armed forces
• From WWII Through Vietnam (1946-1975): The dramatic rise in immigration of Chinese women between 1945 and 1952; transcendental meditation; settlement patterns of Asian Americans; and professions of newly arrived Korean immigrants in 1965
• "Model Minorities" and Political Refugees (1975-Present): Southeast Asian refugee resettlement locations; Chinatowns in the United States; settlement of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees; and inventions by Asian Americans.