The Asian Pacific American heritage : a companion to literature and arts / George J. Leonard, editor.
This book is designed to help students reading novels, watching films, and confronting artworks with information needs quite different from those of social scientists and historians.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Garland Pub.,
1999.
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| Series: | Garland reference library of the humanities ;
vol. 2109. |
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Reading Asian Characters in English; 2 Characters: The Asian Ideogram Systems; 3 Asian Naming Systems; 4 The "Model Minority" Discourse; 5 Confucius and the Asian American Family; 6 My Grandfather's Concubines; 7 Japanese American Life in the Twentieth Century; 8 The Nisei Go to War; 9 Reflections on the Second Generation of Japanese Americans; 10 Reflections on the Third Generation of Japanese Americas; 11 First-Generation Memories; 12 Filipino American Values; 13 Korean American One-Point-Five; 14 The Lizard Hunter.