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The Making of Asian America

The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee. This book tells the history of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. It covers them more or less chronologically, based on when significant migration first happened: Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, South Asians, Filipinos during the late 19th century and then more recently Vietnamese and Hmong.

A common theme has always been antagonism towards immigrants from these countries, to a much bigger extent than other European immigrants. This manifested in exclusion acts, internment camps and even persecution by mobs.

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This entry was parsed from an older retrospective post.