Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American society. This reference work celebrates the contributions of 166 distinguished Asian Americans. Most people profiled are not featured in any other biographical collection of noted Asian Americans. The Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, Filipino Americans, Korean Americans, South Asian Americans (from India and Pakistan), and Southeast Asian Americans (from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) profiled in this work represent more than 75 fields of endeavor. From historical figures to figure skater Michelle Kwan, this work features both prominent and less familiar individuals who have made significant contributions in their fields. A number of the contemporary subjects have given exclusive interviews for this work.
All biographies have been written by experts in their ethnic fields. Those profiled range widely from distinguished scientists and Nobel Prize winners to sports stars, from actors to activists, from politicians to business leaders, from artists to literary luminaries. All are role models for young men and women, and many have overcome difficult odds to succeed. These colorfully written, substantive biographies detail their subjects' goals, struggles, and commitments to success and to their ethnic communities. More than 40 portraits accompany the biographies and each biography concludes with a list of suggested reading for further research. Appendices organizing the biographies by ethnic group and profession make searching easy. This is the most current biographical dictionary on Asian Americans and is ideal for student research.

Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary

Biographies & Memoirs

Singh, Jane

Ng, Franklin

Chuong, Chung H.

Cordova, Dorothy

Fugita, Steve

Kim, Robert H. Hyung Chan

Community & Culture

Greenwood

Despite the relatively short history of the Taiwanese in the United States, they have been a significant presence in America. Since 1965, immigration law changes have led to a dramatic increase in the Asian population in the United States. Taiwanese Americans, the immigrants from Taiwan and their descendants, are a prominent group in this increasing Asian population. This is the first book-length study about the Taiwanese American community in the United States. While most articles have discussed the economic impact of their immigration, this study focuses on their community organization, information networks, religious practices, cultural observances, and the growing second generation. Finally, it concludes with an assessment of the contributions of Taiwanese Americans to U.S. society. Biographical sketches of noted Taiwanese Americans complete the text.
The identity of the Taiwanese American community is complex and evolving, because it is partly determined by the politics between Taiwan and China. As relations between Taiwan and China change, so will the identity of Taiwanese Americans. Other variables affecting their identity include the relations between mainlanders and native Taiwanese in Taiwan, political liberalization within Taiwan, the role of U.S. policy towards Taiwan and China, and the nurturing of a Taiwanese consciousness. An increasingly important variable is the orientation of the second generation, American-born Taiwanese Americans. They have the options of being simultaneously Taiwanese American, Chinese American, Asian American and American. Taiwanese Americans are helping to reinvent America by transforming the economic and cultural landscape of the U.S. as have previous waves of immigrants.

The Taiwanese Americans (The New Americans)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Many Asian Americans have made great strides in achieving the American Dream. However, this diverse population faces great challenges from outside their communities as well as from within. Asian American Issues brings to the fore eight major issues affecting the Asian American population today, including media stereotypes of a model minority, transnationalism, panethnicity, intergenerational conflict, and cultural expression. Students will find that the background narrative and questions for debate and discussion are a meaningful way to engage in the current events of this growing ethnic group.
The history of Asian immigrants in the United States spans more than 200 years. Today, they are the third largest minority group. Almost half live in the West but there are population shifts to other regions of the country. As they become more visible, community dynamics continue to evolve. Each generation also struggles with what it means to be Asian American.

Asian American Issues (Contemporary American Ethnic Issues)

Danico, Mary Yu

America Will Be: Level 5

Nash, Gary B.

SALTER, CHRISTOPHER L.

Armento, Beverly J.

Wixson, Karen K.

Cordova, Jacqueline M.

Klor De Alva, J. Jorge

Wilson, Louis E.

History

Houghton Mifflin School

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Asian American Women and Gender: A Reader (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

Routledge

Contents: Opening the American Mind and Body: The Role of Asian American Studies /  Shirley Hune; Surviving Democracy's "Mistake": Japanese Americans and the Enduring Legacy of Executive Order 9066 /  Don T. Nakanshi; Education and Socialization of Asian Americans: A Revisionist Analysis of the "Model Minority" Thesis /  Bob H. Suzuki; The "Success" Image of Asian Americans: Its Validity, and Its Practical and Theoretical Implications /  Won Moo Hurh and Kwang Chung Kim; Economics, Ideology, and Ethnicity: The Struggle Between the United Farm Workers Union and the Nisei Farmers League /  Stephen S. Fugita and David J. O'Brien; Intergroup Attitudes: Black American Perceptions of Asian Americans /  Michael C. Thornton and Robert J. Taylor; Racial Violence Against Asian Americans /  Harvard Law Review; Japanese Americans and the New Chinese Immigrants: The Politics of Adaptation /  Leland T. Saito; Politics in the American Lifeboat: The Case of Laotian Immigrants /  John C. Harles; Asian Americans Under the Influence of "Japan-Bashing" /  Masako Iino; Filipino Americans and the Marcos Overthrow: The Transformation of Political Consciousness /  Madge Bello and Vincent Reyes; Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research /  Don T. Nakanishi; Panethnicity in the United States: A Theoretical Framework /  David Lopez and Yen Espiritu

Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture)

Asian American Women and Gender

Identifies discrimination and discusses how Chinese Americans have struggled for their civil rights.

Chinese Americans Struggle for Equality (Discrimination)

Teen & Young Adult

Social Issues

Rourke Pub Group

Twenty essays from a May 1993 conference in Honolulu cover history and women's studies, social science, indigenous Hawaiians and Asian American literature. Specific topics include Hmong life stories, Nisei attitudes toward Japanese language schools, artistic and cultural mothering in the poetics of Cathy Song, and an ethnic relations model. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, Power (Association for Asian American Studies)

Yung, Judy

Fugita, Stephens S.

Washington State Univ Pr

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