Asian American War Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian American War Stories write by Jeffrey Tyler Gibbons. This book was released on 2022-10-28. Asian American War Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of suffering. Through the works of contemporary writers like Chang-rae Lee, Ocean Vuong, Nora Okja Keller, Julie Otsuka, Lan Cao, and Lawson Inada, this book explores the ways that recent Asian American literature reflects the enduring consequences of America’s wars in Asia at the individual and collective levels. The book also considers the journeys that individuals take as they pursue healing of their traumatic wounds.
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War
Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War write by Carol A. Shively. This book was released on 2015-02. Asians and Pacific Islanders and the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism write by Jonathan Tran. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. The current emphasis on racial identity obscures the political economic basis that makes racialized life in America legible. This is especially true when it comes to Asian Americans. This book reframes the conversation in terms of what has been called ""racial capitalism"" and utilizes two extended case studies to show how Asian Americans perpetuate and resist its political economy.
The Making of Asian America
The Making of Asian America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Asian America write by Erika Lee. This book was released on 2015-09. The Making of Asian America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as ... historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today"--Jacket.
Close Quarters
Close Quarters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Close Quarters write by Larry Heinemann. This book was released on 2010-03-31. Close Quarters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict--Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial-- and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.
