Asian America: A Primary Source Reader

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume

An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields, from law to visual culture to politics, covering key historical and cultural developments that enable students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century. The primary sources, organized around keywords, often concern multiple hemispheres and movements, making this compendium valuable for a number of historical, ethnic, and cultural study undergraduate programs.

• The Making of Asian America: A History
• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Updated and Revised Edition
• Native Speaker
• The Refugees
• Shortcomings
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
• A New History of Asian America
• When the Emperor Was Divine
• American Born Chinese
• America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Classics of Asian American Literature)