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Title:

Ancestors in the Americas [videorecording] / producer, director, writer, Loni Ding.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Center for Educational Telecommunications,

Copyright Date:

c1997-c1998

Description:

2 videocassettes (124 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Asian Americans--History.
Chinese Americans--History.
Filipino Americans--History.
East Indian Americans--History.
Immigrants--America--History.
America--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Ding, Loni.
Center for Educational Telecommunications.
National Asian American Telecommunications Association.
Independent Television Service.

Other Titles:

Coolies, sailors, settlers.
Chinese in the frontier West.

Notes:

Videocassette release of a 1996-1998 television series. Narrators: Sab Shimono, Pat Morita.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Coolies, sailors, settlers : [voyage to the New World] -- pt. 2. Chinese in the frontier West : an American story / a co-presentation of National Asian American Telecommunications Association, Independent Television Service.

Summary:

Pt. 1 tells the story of how Asians--Filipino, Chinese, Asian Indian--first arrived in the Americas. Film crosses centuries and oceans from the 16th century Manila-Acapulco trade, to the Opium War, to the 19th century plantation coolie labor in South America and the Caribbean. Pt. 2 relates the history of Chinese immigrants in California.

Series:

Asian American history series pt. 1, 2

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39766040

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)