Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Literature|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications

SCOPE: Asian Americans began immigrating to the United States during the 1850s to take advantage of the growing demand for economic and industrial labor. The term Asian Americans covers more than twenty different ethnic groups among who are Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indian, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese. (Gall, Reference Library of Asian America) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available in the library. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS 

Books dealing with Asian Americans are listed in the Baddour Librarys online catalog under the following subject headings:

Asian Americans
Asian Americans History 
Asian Americans Biography
United States Emigration and Immigration Social aspects 

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES 

REF B121.C66 2001 Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy
REF E184.06 R45 1995 Reference Library of Asian America 
REF HN 57.E58 1993 Encyclopedia of American Social History 
REF E184.AlG14 2000 Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING COLLECTION 

Bramall, Chris. Sources of Chinese Economic Growth, 1978-1996. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Chang, Sucheng. Asian Americans: An Interpretive History. Boston: Twayne, 1991.

Dirlik, Arif. Chinese on the American Frontier. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Frazier, Mark W. The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace: State, Revolution, and Labor Management. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Lape, Noreen Groover. West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

Levine, Gene Norman. The Japanese American Community: A Three-Generation Study. New York: Praeger, 1981.

Maira, Sunaina. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Okihiro, Gary Y. Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture. 
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994.

Takaki, Ronald T. Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. New York: Penguin Books, 1990.

Vo, Linda Trinh and Rick Bonus. Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.

Wu, Frank H. Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White. New York: Basic Books, 2002. 

LITERATURE 

Buck, Pearl S. Imperial Woman: A Novel. New York: J. Day Co; 1956.

Buck, Pearl S. Sons. Mont Kisco, N.Y: Moyer Bell Ltd; 1992.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. China Men. New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

Layoun, Mary N. Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Tan, Amy. The Bonesetter's Daughter. New York: G.P. Putnams, 2001.

Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1995.

Tan, Amy. The Kitchen God's Wife. New York: Putnam, 1991.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

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• Ethnic & Race Studies

Open Access Journals in History

Open Access Journals in Ethnology

Updated 08/24/2007