Made-Up Asians - 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 Made-Up Asians write by Esther Kim Lee. This book was released on 2022-07-11. Made-Up Asians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the U.S. context during the Exclusion Era (1862–1940), when Asians faced legal and cultural exclusion from immigration and citizenship. These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens. The book examines a wide-ranging set of primary sources, including makeup guidebooks, play catalogs, advertisements, biographies, and backstage anecdotes, providing new ways of understanding and categorizing yellowface as theatrical practice and historical subject. Made-Up Asians also shows how lingering effects of Asian exclusionary laws can still be seen in yellowface performances, casting practices, and anti-Asian violence into the 21st century.
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.
Asian American Dreams
Asian American Dreams - 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 Dreams write by Helen Zia. This book was released on 2001-05-15. Asian American Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. " ... about the transformation of Asian Americans ... into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society."--Jacket.
Crazy Rich Asians
Crazy Rich Asians - 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 Crazy Rich Asians write by Kevin Kwan. This book was released on 2013-06-11. Crazy Rich Asians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the season. When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home, long drives to explore the island, and quality time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars, and that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel might as well have a target on her back. Initiated into a world of dynastic splendor beyond imagination, Rachel meets Astrid, the It Girl of Singapore society; Eddie, whose family practically lives in the pages of the Hong Kong socialite magazines; and Eleanor, Nick's formidable mother, a woman who has very strong feelings about who her son should--and should not--marry. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian JetSet; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money; between Overseas Chinese and Mainland Chinese; and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.
A History of Asian American Theatre
A History of Asian American Theatre - 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 A History of Asian American Theatre write by Esther Kim Lee. This book was released on 2006-10-12. A History of Asian American Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book surveys the history of Asian American theatre from 1965 to 2005.
