...with a ne w afterword about the recent hate crimes against Asian Americans. \;
\nIn the past fifty years\, Asian Americans have helped change t he face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United Sta tes. But much of their long history has been forgotten. &ldquo\;In her swe eping\, powerful new book\, Erika Lee considers the rich\, complicated\, a nd sometimes invisible histories of Asians in the United States&rdquo\; (H uffington Post).
\nThe Making of Asian America \;shows how gener ations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made a nd remade Asian American life\, from sailors who came on the first trans-P acific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during Wor ld War II. Over the past fifty years\, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows\, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both &ldquo\ ;despised minorities&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;model minorities\,&rdquo\; reveal ing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country.
\nPublished fifty years after the passage of the Uni ted States&rsquo\; Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965\, these &ldquo\ ;powerful Asian American stories&hellip\;are inspiring\, and Lee herself d oes them justice in a book that is long overdue&rdquo\; (Los Angeles Times ). But more than that\, \;The Making of Asian America \;is an &ldq uo\;epic and eye-opening&rdquo\; (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) new way of und erstanding America itself\, its complicated histories of race and immigrat ion\, and its place in the world today.
\nAbout the Author
\nErika Lee is the granddaughter of Chinese immigrants who e ntered the United States through both Angel Island and Ellis Island. She g rew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her PhD from the Univers ity of California at Berkeley. She teaches history at the University of Mi nnesota\, where she is also the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration His tory and Director of the Immigration History Research Center. She is the a uthor of \;The Making of Asian America\, \;Angel Island \;(wit h Judy Yung)\, and \;At America&rsquo\;s Gates.
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