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  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America

    by Mae Ngai ...
    This rags-to-riches history of three generations offers a "terrifically readable, compelling" look at the Chinese middle class and the immigrant experience ( Publishers Weekly).In 1864, at the age of twelve, Jeu Dip left southern China for America. In San Francisco, he reinvented himself as Joseph Tape, an immigration broker whose new life allowed his family to become one of the first of a brand ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Impossible Subjects

    Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America - Updated Edition

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century. Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics

    by Mae Ngai ...
    **Winner of the 2022 Bancroft PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History PrizeFinalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book PrizeHow Chinese migration to the world’s goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race.**In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Chinese Question

    The Gold Rushes and Global Politics

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 49 min

    Between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years, bringing untold wealth to individuals and nations. But friction between Chinese and white settlers on the goldfields of California, Australia, and South Africa catalyzed a global battle over "the Chinese Question": would the United States and the British Empire outlaw Chinese immigration ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Lucky Ones

    One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America - Expanded paperback Edition

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    The Lucky Ones uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type--middle-class Chinese Americans.Tape family history illuminates American ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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    Impossible Subjects

    Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America

    by Mae M. Ngai ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 32 min

    This book traces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in U.S. immigration policy—a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.Mae Ngai offers a close reading of the legal regime of restriction that commenced in the 1920s—its ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Corky Lee's Asian America

    Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

    by Corky Lee ...
    **A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time“For generations, Corky taught us how to see ourselves—as individuals and as a community.”—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay TrueKnown throughout his lifetime as the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Chinese in America

    A Narrative History

    by Iris Chang ...
    A quintessiantially American story chronicling Chinese American achievement in the face of institutionalized racism by the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of NankingIn an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • At America's Gates

    Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

    by Erika Lee ...
    With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants.At America’s Gates is the first book ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

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  • Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans (Updated and Revised)

    by Ronald Takaki ...
    In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese ... Read more

    $9.50 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asian American Dreams

    The Emergence of an American People

    by Helen Zia ...
    The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial groupThis groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD