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The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History (Hardcover)
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The academic field of Asian American history traces its roots to
social movements of the late 1960s, when individuals and
communities attempted to expand and challenge the existing frame of
United States history to take into account their experiences. There
were of course people who had documented and written about Asian
Americans in earlier eras, but a recognizable field did not develop
until the Asian American movement. The publication of Ronald
Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian
Americans (1989) and Sucheng Chan's Asian Americans: An
Interpretive History (1991) signaled a coming of age for the field
in which these narratives of the Asian American past synthesized
the literature that had been produced to date. These two landmark
works reflected the rise of social history, which stressed the
agency of individuals and communities. Historians of many immigrant
groups challenged the framework of assimilation and highlighted
ethnic retentions. The result was a more nuanced understanding of
how immigration had shaped the contours of United States history.
The attention paid to the sending countries placed immigration
history within a transnational context and underscored global
processes linked to labor, capital, and empire. As part of these
historical developments, scholars working in Asian American history
helped unearth buried pasts. The Asian American movement and
post-1965 migrations of Asians to the United States sparked
classes, programs, and other developments on college campuses that
led to students entering graduate school to specialize in Asian
American history. While the Japanese American incarceration during
World War II and racial exclusion remain the most documented and
analyzed dimensions of Asian American history, the body of
scholarship produced over the past two decades or so has deepened
and broadened the scope of knowledge. Numerous monographs and
anthologies have included a greater number of ethnic groups and
issues. The influence of cultural studies, transnationalism,
regional diversity, and interdisciplinary and comparative
frameworks (to name only a few) has added to the richness of the
theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of Asian
American history. Nevertheless, there remains much work to be done
in the field, given the tremendous internal diversity within this
umbrella category. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
represents an ideal opportunity to engage in state of the field
essays that are historiographically informed, but that provide a
platform for historians to think creatively about their areas of
research expertise. What kinds of questions and issues remain, how
do recent developments in related fields affect the historical
treatment of Asian America, and what theoretical and methodological
concerns have emerged? These questions are merely suggestive of
many more that will be asked through the collection's essays. Given
the development of the field, the time is ripe for a volume that
simultaneously assesses where the scholarship has been and what the
future holds.
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