Asian America : a primary source reader
(Book)

Asian American history : an introduction / K. Scott Wong, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, and Jason Oliver Chang (with Quan Tran) -- pt. I. Immigration, migration, and citizenship -- The Naturalization Act of 1790 -- Saint Malo : a Lacustrine village in Louisiana / Patrick Lafcadio Hearn -- People v. Hall (1854) -- Joining the tracks for the First Transcontinental Railway, Promontory, Utah Territory, 1869 -- Anti-Chinese immigration and naturalization laws -- The Page Act of 1875 -- In re Ah Yup (1878) -- The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) -- The Scott Act of 1888 -- The Geary Act of 1892 -- United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) -- The 1902 Scott Act -- Gentlemen's agreement of 1907 -- Immigration Act of 1917 (Barred Zone Act) -- Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922) -- United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) -- The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924) -- The Philippine Independence Act (Tydings-McDuffie Act) (1934) -- The Magnuson Act (1943) -- The 1945 War Bride Act -- The McCarran-Walter Act (1952) -- The Hart-Celler Act (1965) -- The Indochina Migration and Refugee and Assistance Act (1975) -- The Refugee Act of 1980 -- Statement on signing the American Competiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act (2000) -- Cambodian-Americans confronting deportation / Olesia Plokhii and Tom Mashberg --

pt. II. War and imperialism -- "Benevolent Assimilation" Proclamation (1898) -- Queen Liliuokalani's letter of protest -- Japanese on the West Coast / C.B. Munson -- Memorandum on C.B. Munson's report "Japanese on the West Coast" / John Franklin Carter -- How to spot a Jap / Department of the U.S. Army -- Anti-Japan war posters -- Executive Order No. 9066 (1942) -- A Declaration of Policy of the Japanese American Citizens League (1942) -- Internment photographs / Dorothea League -- Leave Clearance interview questions (1943) -- Statement of United States Citizen of Japanese Ancestry (1943) -- Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- No-No boy (1957) / John Okada -- Speech on the Far East (1950) / Dean Acheson -- Address on the situation in Korea (1950) / Harry S. Truman -- Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) -- My Lai Massacre : court testimony -- Vietnam War images -- General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon (1968) / Eddie Adams -- The terror or war (1972) / Nick Ut (Huynh Cong Ut) -- Fall of Saigon (1975) / Hubert Van Es -- Vietnamese refugees arrive at Camp Pendleton (1975) / Don Barletti -- "1.5-Generation" Southeast Asian American writers -- Bryan Thao Worra -- Bao Phi -- Anida Yoeu Ali -- Brief of Amicus Curiae Fred Korematsu (2003) --

pt. III. Race, rights, and representation

Chang and Eng advertisements

Roughing it / Mark Twain

"The Chinese Question" and political cartoons

Rough on rats

Rock Springs Massacre (1885)

Some reasons for Chinese exclusion : meat vs. rice / American Federation of Labor

"La Mestización" cartoon

Four bids for canal labor (1906) / New York Times

The unparalleled invasion (1910) / Jack London

In the land of the free (1909) / Sui Sin Far

Japs keep moving : this is a white man's neighborhood (ca. 1920)

Watsonville Riots (1930) / Los Angeles Times

Be American / Carlos Bulosan

Success story of one minority group in U.S. / U.S. News and World Report

The basis of Black Power / Stokely Carmichael

The emergence of Yellow Power in American / Amy Uyematsu

San Francisco State College Strike (1968-1969)

Interview with Yuri Kochiyama (2006)

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988

Japanese Latin Americans to receive compensation for internment during World War II / Department of Justice

U.A.W. says : if you sell in America, build in America (1981)

The wheel of justice : the killing of Vincent Chin and the death of the Motor City / Frank H. Wu

Korean American businessman recalls L.A. riots / Theresa Walker

Battle hymn of the Tiger Mother (interview with Amy Chua

Asian-American dilemma : good news is bad news / Eric Liu

Abercrombie & Glitch : Asian Americans rip retailer for stereotypes on t-shirts / Jenny Strasburg.