Books in the Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series

Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity.

In the United States, racial status and identity has historically been defined by the White majority. This title shows that race is a major organizing principle. Using census data on Blacks, White Ethnics and Nonblack Minorities, it deconstructs majority/minority classifications to reveal the multiplicity of identities surrounding each group.

This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups.

Presents an overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. This work explores how these communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation.

An anthology of empirical studies of Asian Americans' ethnic or pan-ethnic identities, examining ethnic attachments among second-generation Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans.

Addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about Asian American and dirt through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded.

Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.

Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.

The authors present narratives on ethnic identity written by first and second generation Asian American professionals. This book aims to prove the ethnicity is a dynamic process, not a fixed state.

Demonstrates the position of Asian Pacific Americans in the US workforce. This book examines personal accounts of discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, and familial relations. It offers Asian Pacific Americans strategies to cope with discrimination.

Meant for educators and other practitioners who want to use interactive activities, assignments, and strategies in their classrooms or workshops. The activities in this book are aimed at staff and practitioners in student services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training programs, social service agencies, and diversity training.

Meant for educators and other practitioners who want to use interactive activities, assignments, and strategies in their classrooms or workshops. The activities in this book are aimed at staff and practitioners in student services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training programs, social service agencies, and diversity training.

Discusses frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary US race relations. This volume contains essays that challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities.

This text surveys Asian-American cinema allowing its aesthetic, cultural, and political diversity and continuities to emerge. The author draws insight from such bodies of scholarship as African-American and Latino film studies, Marxian cultural theory, ethnic studies, and feminism.