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Prof. Kwong will
focus his
presentation on
the current
issues affecting
Asian American
studies, and the
need for a new
civil rights
agenda in the
United States.
Here is the
definitive
portrait of
Chinese America,
charting 150
years of
American history
from the Chinese
frontiersmen of
the Wild West to
the high-tech
transnationals
of today’s
booming Chinese
American
ethnoburbs.
Drawing on years
of original
research and
travels across
the United
States and Asia,
Peter Kwong and
Dusanka Miscevic
have produced a
fascinating,
panoramic
narrative,
bringing us
inside 19th
century gold
mining camps,
Asian fishing
villages,
Chinese American
nightclubs of
the 30s and 40s,
and new
immigrant
enclaves. This
book is also a
landmark
analysis a truly
international
American
history. As one
of the oldest
immigrant groups
and
fastest-growing
communities in
the United
States, Chinese
Americans have
been in the
thick of
national debates
about race,
class,
immigration, and
foreign policy
from the
settlement of
the West to
today’s era of
globalization.
With its unique
lens, Chinese
America offers a
new picture of
the country’s
development,
even as it
provides one of
the first
extensive
reports on the
new suburban
immigrant
communities that
are transforming
present-day
America.
Kwong and
Miscevic apply
new thinking to
the simple
immigrant story
of triumph over
adversity. The
international
trade in illegal
immigrants
persists, urban
ghettos continue
to host some of
the country’s
poorest
immigrants, and
anti-Asian
discrimination
lingers, but
Chinese
Americans also
now live in the
suburbs in
higher
proportions than
whites. Chinese
America gives us
a portrait of an
ethnic group in
the making,
including
stories of
extraordinary
hardship,
discrimination
and success.
Autographed
copies of Prof.
Kwong's book
'Chinese
America: The
Untold Story of
America's Oldest
New Community'
will be on sale
during the
lecture.
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For more
information on Prof. Kwong's book, please visit
http://www.thenewpress.com/books/chinese.htm
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