Traces the history of Asian immigration from the California gold rush to Vietnamese boat people, describes patterns of work, social adaptation, and family formation, and explains how they coped with discrimination.
Portrait of Chinese America charting 150 years of American history from the Chinese frontiersmen of the wild west to the high-tech transnationals of today's booming Chinese American enthnoburbs.
In the late 19th Century, midwifery was transformed into a new woman's profession as part of Japan's modernizing quest for Empire. As immigrants to the US Japanese midwives, Sanba, served as cultural brokers as well as birth attendants for Issei…
