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Title:

Far east, down south : Asians in the American south / edited by Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and Chizuru Saeki.

Publisher:

The University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

Asian Americans--Southern States--History.
Asian Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
Southern States--Race relations.
Asian Americans.
Asian Americans--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Southern States.
History.

Other Authors:

Mohl, Raymond A., editor.
Van Sant, John E., 1958- editor.
Saeki, Chizuru, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / David M. Reimers -- The astonishing history of Japanese Americans in Louisiana / Greg Robinson -- Views of Japanese in Alabama, 1941-1953 / Chizuru Saeki -- Collective aspirations of Japanese Americans in and beyond the WWII South / John Howard -- Asian immigration to Florida / Raymond A. Mohl -- Chinese in Florida: history, struggles, and contributions to the Sunshine State / Wenxian Zhang -- "Chinese for the South": Mississippi delta Chinese migration chains / John Jung -- Second-generation Chinese Americans from Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah Georgia: overcoming "otherness" / Daniel Bronstein -- Immigrant dreams and second-generation realities: Indian Americans negotiating marriage, culture, and identity in North Carolina / Vincent H. Melomo -- Resilient history and the rebuilding of a community: the Vietnamese American community in New Orleans East / Karen J. Leong, Christopher A. Airriess, Wei Li, Angela Chia-Chen Chen, and Verna M. Keith.

Series:

The modern South

ISBN:

081731914X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817319144 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)930256902

LCCN:

2016006832

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

JMPC081 -- Madrid Public Library (Madrid)