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In the United States, racial status and identity has historically been defined by the White majority. This title shows that race is a major organizing principle. Using census data on Blacks, White Ethnics and Nonblack Minorities, it deconstructs majority/minority classifications to reveal the multiplicity of identities surrounding each group.

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Incorporates many voices from the Asian Pacific American business community. This book demonstrates the position of Asian Pacific Americans in the US workforce. It examines personal accounts of discrimination in the workplace, sexual harassment, and familial relations.

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Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.

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Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal insider personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.

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Addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about Asian American and dirt through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded.

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This text analyzes scholarship and controversies on the glass ceiling and labour market discrimination in conjunction with the specific labour histories of Asian American ethnic groups.

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Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity.

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Presents an overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. This work explores how these communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social service, and the passing along an ethnic identity to the next generation.

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Discusses frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary US race relations. This volume contains essays that challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian-American communities.

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Dr. Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim present narratives on ethnic identity written by first and second generation Asian American professionals, as well as those with one first generation and one second generation Asian American parent.