David K. Yoo - The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

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The Oxford handbook of Asian American history / edited by David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 9780199860463 (cloth : alk. paper)eISBN 97801906140341.Asian AmericansHistory.I.Yoo, David, editor.II.Azuma, Eiichiro, editor.

E184.A75O94 2016

973.0495dc23

2015032147

DAVID K. YOO AND EIICHIRO AZUMA

KEITH L. CAMACHO

JASON OLIVER CHANG

SUNAINA MAIRA

JOHN P. ROSA

CHIA YOUYEE VANG

K. SCOTT WONG

HENRY YU

EIICHIRO AZUMA

KORNEL S. CHANG

MADELINE Y. HSU

DARYL JOJI MAEDA

CATHERINE CENIZA CHOY

MOON-HO JUNG

LON KURASHIGE

SIMEON MAN

AMY SUEYOSHI

XIAOJIAN ZHAO

SUCHENG CHAN

GORDON H. CHANG

AUGUSTO ESPIRITU

HELEN JIN KIM, TIMOTHY TSENG, AND DAVID K. YOO

SCOTT KURASHIGE

ERIKA LEE

FRANKLIN S. ODO

GREG ROBINSON

EILEEN H. TAMURA

ADRIENNE ANN WINANS AND JUDY TZU-CHUN WU

THE completion of this book project represents the end of a lengthy process, and we especially are grateful for the patience and goodwill extended to us by the contributors whose work is featured in these pages and that constitutes a very high level of scholarship. While all published writings are a reflection of a certain time and place, we are confident that these essays will be an important touchstone for those of us who focus on Asian American history and others who have an interest in this area.

Thanks to Nancy Toff and the various editorial assistants at Oxford University Press. We would especially like to thank Phi Hong Su of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), for her able and attentive research assistance.

Eiichiro would like to express his deep gratitude to colleagues, staff, and students at the University of Pennsylvanias History Department and Asian American Studies Program. Hiromi deserves a special mention for her unending emotional support.

From David, many thanks to colleagues, staff, and students at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Department and the Institute of American Cultures. The bridging of research with our community partners in the greater Los Angeles area has been an especially meaningful dimension of being at UCLA. He also is thankful to his coauthors, Helen Jin Kim and Timothy Tseng, for the collaboration on their essay for this volume. As always, it is a joy to share life with Ruth, Jonathan, and Joshua.

Finally, we would like to dedicate this volume to the late Yuji Ichioka, our mentor and sensei. He taught us and many others about reclaiming the buried pasts of Asian Americans.

David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma

Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Keith L. Camacho is Associate Professor of Pacific Islander Studies in the Asian American Studies Department and a Faculty-in-Residence at the Office of Residential Life at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the senior editor of the Amerasia Journal; the author of Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands; and the coeditor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific.

Sucheng Chan is Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service to students, the campus, and the Asian American community.

Gordon H. Chang is Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University and is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities. He has written extensively about Asian American history and AmericaEast Asia relations. His more recent works include Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects; Asian American Art: A History, 18501970; and Fateful Ties: A History of Americas Preoccupation with China. He is the codirector of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford, a multidisciplinary and international effort to recover and interpret the history of Chinese workers who helped construct the first transcontinental and other rail lines throughout the country.

Jason Oliver Chang is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). He is the author of a book manuscript entitled Chino: Racial Transformation of the Chinese in Mexico, 18801940. He is also a coeditor of Asian America: A Primary Source Reader with K. Scott Wong and Cathy Schlund-Vials (forthcoming).

Kornel S. Chang is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers-Newark, State University of New Jersey. He is the author of Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands, winner of the 2014 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award and a runner-up finalist for the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize. He is currently working on a book about the U.S. occupation of Korea.

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America and Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History.

Augusto Espiritu is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies (AAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He recently published the articles Inter-Imperial Relations, the Pacific, and Asian American History and Planting Roots: Asian American Studies in the Midwest. He was the former head of the AAS Department, and he serves as a series editor for Southeast Asian Diasporas in the Americas (Brill) and as a member of the editorial board for Amerasia Journal.

Madeline Y. Hsu is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin, and the former Director of the Center for Asian American Studies. Her first book, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 18821943, won the 2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. She coedited