The making of Asian America: a history

Introduction. Part one. Beginnings : Asians in the Americas: 1. Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; 2. Coolies --

Part two. The Making of Asian America during the age of mass migration and Asian exclusion 3. Chinese immigrants in search of Gold Mountain ; 4. "The Chinese must go!" : the anti-Chinese movement ; 5. Japanese immigrants and the "yellow peril" ; 6. "We must struggle in exile" : Korean immigrants ; 7. South Asian immigrants and the "Hindu invasion" ; 8. "We have heard much of America" : Filipinos in the U.S. empire ; 9. Border crossings and border enforcement: undocumented Asian immigration --

Part three. Asian America in a world at war: 10. "Military necessity" : the uprooting of Japanese Americans during World War II ; 11. "Grave injustices" : the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II ; 12. Good war, Cold War --

Part four. Remaking Asian America in a globalized world 13. Making a new Asian America through immigration and activism ; 14. In search of refuge : Southeast Asians in the United States ; 15. Making a new home : Hmong refugees and Hmong Americans ; 16. Transnational immigrants and global Americans --

Part five. Twenty-First-Century Asian Americans: 17. The "rise of Asian Americans"? : myths and realities -- Epilogue: Redefining America in the twenty-first century --

Poscript: Asian Americans' racial reckoning --

Bibliographic essay ; Image credits ; Acknowledgments ; Notes ; Index.