{"product_id":"the-making-of-asian-america-a-history-9781476739410","title":"The Making of Asian America: A History","description":"A \"comprehensive...fascinating\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review) \u003c\/i\u003ehistory of Asian Americans and their role in American life, by one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the subject. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But much of their long history has been forgotten. \"In her sweeping, powerful new book, Erika Lee considers the rich, complicated, and sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States\" (\u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Making of Asian America\u003c\/i\u003e shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a \"despised minority,\" Asian Americans are now held up as America's \"model minorities\" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished fifty years after the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, these \"powerful Asian American stories...are inspiring, and Lee herself does them justice in a book that is long overdue\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e). But more than that, \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Asian America \u003c\/i\u003eis an \"epic and eye-opening\" (\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476739410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Erika Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36652448841884,"sku":"9781476739410","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3cd404bf-0d02-4649-9feb-05a3876e5b0e.jpg?v=1603879814","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-making-of-asian-america-a-history-9781476739410","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}