Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States (Asian American Experience)

Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities--Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution (1975-79), the border war during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia (1979-89), and the additional travails faced by those who escaped to holding camps in Thailand. The book also includes an essay on oral history and a substantial bibliography.

Politics & Social Sciences

Chan, Sucheng

Kim, Audrey U.

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program Building (Asian American Experience)

Insights from the vanguard of academic program building

History

Americas

Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities -- Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan’s extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution (1975-79), the border war during the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia (1979-89), and the additional travails faced by those who escaped to holding camps in Thailand. The book also includes an essay on oral history and a substantial bibliography.

In Defense of Asian American Studies amounts to tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. With great intellectual energy, critical acumen, and a sly sense of humour, Sucheng Chan discusses her experiences on three campuses within the University of California system where Asian American studies was first developed--in response to vehement student demand--under the rubric of ethnic studies. Chan speaks by turns as an advocate and an administrator striving to secure a place for Asian American studies; as a teacher working to give Asian American students a voice and white students a perspective on race and racism; and as a scholar and researcher still asking her own questions. The essays span three decades, closing with a piece on new challenges that face Asian American studies. Eloquently documenting a field of endeavour in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other, this volume combines analysis, personal experience, and practical advice indispensable to those engaged in building and sustaining programs in Asian American studies.

Based on prodigious research, this book chronicles the activities of the thousands of Chinese agricultural pioneers and entrepreneurs who helped make California the nation's premier agricultural state.

This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910

Business & Money

University of California Press

This volume compiles carefully selected documents and essays to illuminate the most important controversies in the history of California from the precontact period to the present.

Major Problems in California History

Olin, Spencer

Cengage Learning'

This stimulating anthology examines the experiences of peoples of color in western American history. A thematic approach allows students to compare the experiences of different ethnic groups in 15 critical areas, among them work, community, racism, and politics.

Peoples of Color in the American West

Wilson, Terry

Daniels, Douglas Henry

Garcia, T.

Traces the history of Asian immigration from the California gold rush to Vietnamese boat people, describes patterns of work, social adaptation, and family formation, and explains how they coped with discrimination

Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Twayne's Immigrant Heritage of America Series)

Twayne Pub

In 1882, Congress passed a Chinese exclusion law that barred the entry of Chinese laborers for ten years. The Chinese thus became the first people to be restricted from immigrating into the United States on the basis of race. Exclusion was renewed in 1892 and 1902 and finally made permanent in 1904. Only in 1943 did Congress rescind all the Chinese exclusion laws as a gesture of goodwill towards China, an ally of the United States during World War II. Entry Denied is a collection of essays on how the Chinese exclusion laws were implemented and how the Chinese as individuals and as a community in the U.S. mobilized to mitigate the restrictions imposed upon them. It is the first book in English to rely on Chinese language sources to explore the exclusion era in Chinese American history.

Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943 (Asian American History & Cultu)

Temple University Press

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Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States (Asian American Experience)

In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program Building (Asian American Experience)

Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States (Asian American Experience)

In Defense of Asian American Studies: The Politics of Teaching and Program Building (Asian American Experience)

This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910

This Bittersweet Soil: The Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910

Major Problems in California History

Peoples of Color in the American West

Asian Americans: An Interpretive History (Twayne's Immigrant Heritage of America Series)

Entry Denied: Exclusion and the Chinese Community in America, 1882-1943 (Asian American History & Cultu)