Asian American Children: A Historical Handbook and Guide

by Benson Tong

Overview

The presence of Asian immigrants and citizens has a long history in the United States. Asian American Children: A Historical Handbook and Guide provides insights into the diverse experience of these children and their families from their first appearance here to the present. Essays review topics such as identity, family structures, labor, gender, and class. Selected primary documents review topics such as racial quotas, biculturalism, and refugees. This is the first work to cover the historical and the contemporary experience of these children from a multiplicity of views, using essays and documents.

Beginning c. 1850, this work relates the experiences and context in which diverse groups of Asian American children lived their lives. The voices of children, included in the primary documents, provide a vivid narrative of immigrant life over the past 150 years. While the lives of children were generally included in historical narratives of the country, a focus specifically on children allows the reader to more fully understand the central place of family in the economic and social development of a nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313330421
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/2004
Series:	Children and Youth: History and Culture
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

BENSON TONG is Assistant Professor of History at Wichita State University and the author of several books on Asian Americans and Native Americans.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Interpretive Essays
Introduction: The Worldview of Asian American Children by Benson Tong
Invisible Historical Players: Uncovering the Meanings and Expereinces of Children in Early Asian American History by Yong Chen
The Convergence of the Twain: Representations of Asians in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1888-1910 by Claudia Nelson
Growing up in "Hop Alley": Chinese American Youth in St. Louis during the Early 20th Century by Huping Ling
Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese American Children and Adolesents during the Internment Era by Benson Tong
Gender, Family, Community: Cultural Reconstruction among Teenage Laotionan Girls in Northern California by Bindi Shah
Ensuring Upward Mobility: Obligations of Children of Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Transnationalism among Second-Generation Asian Indians by Jean Bacon
Documents
First Experiences in America by Yan Phou Lee
Immigration Interview Transcripts
An Agreement to Assist a Young Girl Names Loi Yau
Diary by Ah Quin
The Curious Case of Ah-Top (A Chinese Legend)
The Children of Chinatown in San Francisco by Theodore Wores
Quiet Oddessey by Mary Paik Lee
A Native Filipino's Impressions of America by Anonymous
Juan, the Story of a Filipino Boy by Helen P. Beattie
Gong Lum et al. v Rice et al.(1927) United States Supreme Court
My Contact with Orientals by Miss Lentz (Teacher in Franklin High School, Seatlle)
Interview with Miss Chiyo Otera Conducted by William C. Smith by Chiyo Otera
Life History of J. Lim by J. Lim
Interview with Thomas W. Chinn Interview conducted by Ruth Teiser
Buddhism in the United States War Relocation Authority, Community Analysis Section
The Autobiography of Wayne Hung Wong by Wayne Hung Wong
My Viewpoint of the Evacuation by Stanley Hayami
The War Stamps or Bond That You Bought Today by Fumiye Ando
Education Section: Final Report, 1945 by Lloyd A. Garrison Stanley Hayami Diary by Stanley Hayami
Letter from Ontario, Oregon, 1944 by Shirley Sugahiro
The Homeless Asian American by Lee Fang
Soukanthone "Aly" Vonckamchanch Interview conducted by Sheri A. Saunders
Petition for Immigration of Amerasian Children by Unidentified Vietnamese Women
Letter to U.S. Congress from Amerasian Youth by Lily Lee
Life History Interview: Niloufer Aziz Interview conducted by Jean Bacon
When Being Best Isn't Good Enough: Why Yat-Pang Won't Be Going to Berkeley by Linda Matthews
Everybody Seemed to Be Either White, Black, or a Full Race by Lisa Graham
Bibliography