Remapping Asian American History [Paperback]

Since the book covers diverse topics, scholars will pick and choose articles according to their individual interests. Whatever their choice, they will encounter careful research and interesting approaches.Remapping Asian American History discusses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. Collectively, the essays in this volume challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography.Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian American communities and point to new directions in Asian American historiography. Historians, students, and teachers of anthropology, Asian and Asian American Studies, race and ethnic studies, U.S. immigration history, and American Studies will find this collection invaluable.Part 1 Introduction: Underexplored Topics, Emerging Frameworks Part 2 Part One: Underexplored Topics Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Chinese American Experiences in a New England Mill City: Lowell Massachusetts, 1876-1967 Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Revisiting New York's Chinatown, 1900-1930 Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Forgotten Families: The Development of the Chinese American Community in San Francisco, 1860-1880 Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Testing Assumptions: IQ, Japanese Americans, and the Model Minority Myth in the 1920s and 1930s Chapter 7 Chapter 5: A lÏ