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Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
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Asian American Reference Library: Voices
Author: U X L Asian American Reference Library
Author: Deborah Gillan StraubPublisher: Gale Research International, Limited
ISBN: 9780787676001
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
U-X-L Asian American Voices presents full or excerpted speeches, orations, testimony, and other notable works of 20 Asian Americans. Each entry is accompanied by an introduction that provides biographical information on the speaker and contextualizes the content of the speech. Boxes throughout the volume explain events to which the speeches refer, and difficult words are defined in a glossary on the page on which they appear. Voices contains more than 100 black-and-white illustrations, a timeline, a directory of speech topics, and a subject index. Book jacket.
Asian American Voices
Author: Deborah Gillan StraubPublisher: Gale / Cengage Learning
ISBN: 9780810396913
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Presents speeches, orations, and testimonies from fifteen Asian Americans on such topics as civil rights, discrimination, ethnic stereotyping, Japanese American internment, and social unrest
Asian American Reference Library: Voices
Author: Irene NatividadPublisher:
ISBN: 9780787675998
Category : Asian Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
U- X - L(R) announces a 2nd edition of its New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book, U- X - L(R) Asian American Reference Library. Rich with photos and completely revised and updated through 2002, this 5-vol. set enriches the diversity of secondary school and public library collections. This edition features 85 photos in the Almanac; an additional 20 biographies and 150 photos in Biographies; 100 photos in Chronology; and five new primary source documents and 60 photos in Voices. Almanac explores the culture and history of the diverse groups of Americans who descend from Asian and Pacific Island countries in 17 subject areas with more than 85 black-and-white photographs and maps, a glossary and a cumulative subject index. Biographies provides profiles on more than 150 Americans who trace their ancestry to Asia and the Pacific Islands in two volumes. Chronology explores significant social, political, economic, cultural and professional milestones in Asian American history with more than 100 illustrations and maps as well as charts and boxes that highlight important information. Voices is a collection of complete and excerpted speeches delivered by 20 Asian American activists, political figures and other prominent men and women who have shaped the history and culture of the U.S. since the late 19th century.
Asian American Reference Library
Author: Gale GroupPublisher: Uxl
ISBN: 9780810396852
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
This 5-vol. set will enrich the diversity of secondary school and public library collections. "Asian American Almanac," organized into 15 chapters, explores the culture and history of the diverse groups of Americans who descend from Asian and Pacific Island countries. "Asian American Biography" profiles, in two volumes, more than 130 Asian Americans. "Asian American Voices" is a collection of complete and excerpted speeches delivered by 15 Asian American activists, political figures and other prominent men and women who have shaped the history and culture of the U.S. since the late 19th century. "Asian American Chronology" provides significant social, political, economic, cultural and professional milestones in Asian American history.
Asian American Reference Library
Author: na
Author: A Gathering of Voices on the Asian American Experience
Author: Annette White ParksPublisher: Upstart Books
ISBN: 9780917846267
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A valuable resource for libraries seeking to strengthen their collections on Asian American literature and arts. Features six major sections: popular culture, educational challenges, cultural clashes, self-identity, contrasts between tradition and changing society and insider/outsider perspectives. Chapter contributors include authorities on Asian American literature, film, civil rights and politics, drama, women's issues, and Asian Americans in the media, higher education, science and society.
Our Voices, Our Histories
Author: Shirley HunePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479840017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond. This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. Our Voices, Our Histories showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women’s and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women’s histories.
A Symphony of Voices
Author: Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Asian American women
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description