BOOKS
Made in Asian America
A History for Young People
From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade non-fiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American.
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America for Americans
A History of Xenophobia in the United States
An award-winning historian reframes our continuing debate over immigration with a compelling history of xenophobia in the United States and its devastating impact.
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The Making of Asian America
A History
Awarded the 2015 -2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction from the American Library Association
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Angel Island
Immigrant Gateway to America
Angel Island reframes our understanding of both the Angel Island Immigration Station and America’s complicated relationship to immigration. (Co-authored with Judy Yung and sponsored by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation to commemorate the immigration station’s centennial).
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At America’s Gates
Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
At America’s Gates explores how the Chinese exclusion laws not only transformed Chinese American lives, immigration patterns, identities, and families but also recast the United States into a “gatekeeping nation.”