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America’s national experience and collective history have always
been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events
and conditions. In recognition of this reality,
Montoya/Belmonte/Guarneri/Hackel/Hartigan-O'Connor/Kurashige's
GLOBAL AMERICANS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2nd EDITION,
presents a history of North America and then the United States in
which world events and processes are central rather than colorful
sidelights. In doing so, the text reflects the diverse experiences
of you, the students, and your families. You’ll be immersed in an
accessible and inclusive American history in which a variety of
social, cultural, economic and geographic dynamics play key roles.
The authors want you to see yourselves in the narrative, primary
source documents, images and other media they have assembled. The
text reveals the long history of global events that have shaped,
and been shaped by, the peoples who have come to constitute the
United States.
America’s national experience and collective history have always
been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events
and conditions. In recognition of this reality,
Montoya/Belmonte/Guarneri/Hackel/Hartigan-O'Connor/Kurashige's
GLOBAL AMERICANS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2nd EDITION,
presents a history of North America and then the United States in
which world events and processes are central rather than colorful
sidelights. In doing so, the text reflects the diverse experiences
of you, the students, and your families. You’ll be immersed in an
accessible and inclusive American history in which a variety of
social, cultural, economic and geographic dynamics play key roles.
The authors want you to see yourselves in the narrative, primary
source documents, images and other media they have assembled. The
text reveals the long history of global events that have shaped,
and been shaped by, the peoples who have come to constitute the
United States.
From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of
1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the
United States has a long history of anti-Asian policies. But Lon
Kurashige demonstrates that despite widespread racism, Asian
exclusion was not the product of an ongoing national consensus; it
was a subject of fierce debate. This book complicates the exclusion
story by examining the organized and well-funded opposition to
discrimination that involved some of the most powerful public
figures in American politics, business, religion, and academia. In
recovering this opposition, Kurashige explains the rise and fall of
exclusionist policies through an unstable and protracted political
rivalry that began in the 1850s with the coming of Asian
immigrants, extended to the age of exclusion from the 1880s until
the 1960s, and since then has shaped the memory of past
discrimination. In this first book-length analysis of both sides of
the debate, Kurashige argues that exclusion-era policies were more
than just enactments of racism; they were also catalysts for
U.S.-Asian cooperation and the basis for the twenty-first century's
tightly integrated Pacific world.
Do racial minorities in the United States assimilate to American
values and institutions, or do they retain ethnic ties and
cultures? In exploring the Japanese American experience, Lon
Kurashige recasts this tangled debate by examining what
assimilation and ethnic retention have meant to a particular
community over a long period of time. This is an inner history, in
which the group identity of one of America's most noteworthy racial
minorities takes shape. From the 1930s, when Japanese immigrants
controlled sizable ethnic enclaves, to the tragic wartime
internment and postwar decades punctuated by dramatic class
mobility, racial protest, and the influx of economic investment
from Japan, the story is fraught with conflict.
The narrative centers on Nisei Week in Los Angeles, the largest
annual Japanese celebration in the United States. The celebration
is a critical site of political conflict, and the ways it has
changed over the years reflect the ongoing competition over what it
has meant to be Japanese American. Kurashige reveals, subtly and
with attention to gender issues, the tensions that emerged at
different moments, not only between those who emphasized Japanese
ethnicity and those who stressed American orientation, but also
between generations and classes in this complex community.
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe
in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the
1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceeded
their counterparts from Europe, reversing a longstanding historical
trend and making Asian Americans the country’s fastest growing
racial group. What does transpacific history look like if the arc
of the story is extended to the present? The essays in this volume
offer answers to this question challenging current assumptions
about transpacific relations. Many of these assumptions are
expressed through fear: that the ascendance of China threatens a
U.S.-led world system and undermines domestic economies; that
immigrants subvert national unity; and that globalization, for all
its transcending of international, cultural, and racial
differences, generates its own forms of prejudice and social
divisions that reproduce global and national inequalities. The
contributors make clear that these fears associated with, and
induced by, pacific integration are not new. Rather, they are the
most recent manifestation of international, racial, and cultural
conflicts that have driven transpacific relations in its premodern
and especially modern iterations. Pacific America differs from
other books that are beginning to flesh out the transnational
history of the Pacific Ocean in that it is more self-consciously a
people’s history. While diplomatic and economic relations are
addressed, the chapters are particularly concerned with histories
from the “bottom up,” including attention to social relations
and processes, individual and group agency, racial and cultural
perception, and collective memory. These perspectives are embodied
in the four sections focusing on China and the early modern world,
circuits of migration and trade, racism and imperialism, and the
significance of Pacific islands. The last section on Pacific
Islanders avoids a common failing in popular perception that
focuses on both sides of the Pacific Ocean while overlooking the
many islands in between. The chapters in this section take on one
of the key challenges for transpacific history in connecting the
migration and imperial histories of the United States, Japan,
China, Korea, Vietnam, and other nations, with the history of
Oceania.
America’s national experience and collective history have always
been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events
and conditions. In recognition of this reality,
Montoya/Belmonte/Guarneri/Hackel/Hartigan-O'Connor/Kurashige's
GLOBAL AMERICANS: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, 2nd EDITION,
presents a history of North America and then the United States in
which world events and processes are central rather than colorful
sidelights. In doing so, the text reflects the diverse experiences
of you, the students, and your families. You’ll be immersed in an
accessible and inclusive American history in which a variety of
social, cultural, economic and geographic dynamics play key roles.
The authors want you to see yourselves in the narrative, primary
source documents, images and other media they have assembled. The
text reveals the long history of global events that have shaped,
and been shaped by, the peoples who have come to constitute the
United States.
Ideal as the primary anthology or textbook for courses in Asian
American history, this collection covers the subject’s entire
chronological span. The volume presents a carefully selected group
of readings that puts you on the front lines of history -- engaging
you as you evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of
distinguished historians, and draw your own conclusions.
Maria Montoya | Laura A. Belmonte | Carl J. Guarneri | Ellen
Hartigan-O'Connor | Steven Hackel | Lon Kurashige America's
national experience and collective history have always been subject
to transnational forces and affected by global events and
conditions. In recognition of this reality, GLOBAL AMERICANS
presents a history of North America and then the United States in
which world events and processes are central rather than colorful
sidelights. In doing so, the text reflects the diverse experiences
of you -- the students it speaks to -- and your families. You'll be
immersed in an accessible and inclusive American history in which a
variety of social, cultural, economic, and geographic dynamics play
key roles. The authors want you to see yourselves in the narrative,
primary source documents, images, and other media they have
assembled. GLOBAL AMERICANS reveals the long history of global
events that have shaped -- and been shaped by -- the peoples who
have come to constitute the United States.
Maria Montoya | Laura A. Belmonte | Carl J. Guarneri | Ellen
Hartigan-O'Connor | Steven Hackel | Lon Kurashige America’s
national experience and collective history have always been subject
to transnational forces and affected by global events and
conditions. In recognition of this reality, GLOBAL AMERICANS
presents a history of North America and then the United States in
which world events and processes are central rather than colorful
sidelights. In doing so, the text reflects the diverse experiences
of you -- the students it speaks to -- and your families. You’ll
be immersed in an accessible and inclusive American history in
which a variety of social, cultural, economic, and geographic
dynamics play key roles. The authors want you to see yourselves in
the narrative, primary source documents, images, and other media
they have assembled. GLOBAL AMERICANS reveals the long history of
global events that have shaped -- and been shaped by -- the peoples
who have come to constitute the United States.
Maria Montoya | Laura A. Belmonte | Carl J. Guarneri | Ellen
Hartigan-O'Connor | Steven Hackel | Lon Kurashige America's
national experience and collective history have always been subject
to transnational forces and affected by global events and
conditions. In recognition of this reality, GLOBAL AMERICANS
presents a history of North America and then the United States in
which world events and processes are central rather than colorful
sidelights. In doing so, the text reflects the diverse experiences
of you -- the students it speaks to -- and your families. You'll be
immersed in an accessible and inclusive American history in which a
variety of social, cultural, economic, and geographic dynamics play
key roles. The authors want you to see yourselves in the narrative,
primary source documents, images, and other media they have
assembled. GLOBAL AMERICANS reveals the long history of global
events that have shaped -- and been shaped by -- the peoples who
have come to constitute the United States.
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