Asian Americans: An Interpretive History
- ISBN-10
- 0805784268
- ISBN-13
- 9780805784268
- Series
- Asian Americans
- Category
- History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Twayne
- Author
- Sucheng Chan
Description
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
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- 2003-04-07
- 302 pages
- Paperback
- Guilford Press
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- 2003
- 330 pages
- Paperback
- Jones & Bartlett Learning
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