Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American studies came from and what the future holds. In this volume, thirty leading scholars offer original essays on a wide range of topics. The chapters trace Asian American history from the beginning of the migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American continent to Japanese American incarceration and Asian American participation in World War II, from the experience of exclusion, violence, and racism to the social and political activism of the late twentieth century. The authors explore many of the key aspects of the Asian American experience, including politics, economy, intellectual life, the arts, education, religion, labor, gender, family, urban development, and legal history. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History demonstrates how the roots of Asian American history are linked to visions of a nation marked by justice and equity and to a deep effort to participate in a global project aimed at liberation. The contributors to this volume attest to the ongoing importance of these ideals, showing how the mass politics, creative expressions, and the imagination that emerged during the 1960s are still relevant today. It is an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped change the face of the United States.

David K. Yoo is Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written and edited several books, including Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 and Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-1949.
Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.

- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma
- Part I. Migration Flows
- 1. Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, and the American Empire
- Keith L. Camacho
- 2. Towards A Hemispheric Asian American History
- Jason Oliver Chang
- 3. South Asian America: Histories, Cultures, Politics
- Sunaina Maira
- 4. Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Hawai'i: People, Place, Culture
- John P. Rosa
- 5. Southeast Asian Americans
- Chia Youyee Vang
- 6. East Asian Immigrants
- K. Scott Wong
- 7. Asian Canadian History
- Henry Yu
- Part II. Time Passages
- 8. Internment and World War II History
- Eiichiro Azuma
- 9. Reconsidering Asian Exclusion in the United States
- Kornel S. Chang
- 10. Cold War
- Madeline Y. Hsu
- 11. Asian American Movement
- Daryl Joji Maeda
- Part III. Variations on Themes
- 12. A History of Asian International Adoption in the United States
- Catherine Ceniza Choy
- 13. Confronting the Racial State of Violence: How Asian American History Can Reorient the Study of Race
- Moon-Ho Jung
- 14. Theory and History
- Lon Kurashige
- 15. Empire and War in Asian American History
- Simeon Man
- 16. Queer Asian American Historiography
- Amy Sueyoshi
- 17. The Study of Asian American Families
- Xiaojian Zhao
- Part IV. Engaging Historical Fields
- 18. Asian American Economic and Labor History
- Sucheng Chan
- 19. Asian Americans, Politics, and History
- Gordon H. Chang
- 20. Asian American Intellectual History
- Augusto Espiritu
- 21. Asian American Religious History
- Helen Jin Kim, Timothy Tseng, and David K. Yoo
- 22. Race, Space, and Place in Asian American Urban History
- Scott Kurashige
- 23. From Asia to the United States, Around the World, and Back Again: New Directions in Asian American Immigration History
- Erika Lee
- 24. Public History and Asian Americans
- Franklin Odo
- 25. Asian American Legal History
- Greg Robinson
- 26. Asian American Education History
- Eileen H. Tamura
- 27. Not Adding and Stirring: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality History and the Transformation of Asian America
- Adrienne Ann Winans and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
- Index