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Provides insights into the diverse experiences of Asian American children, from the 19th century through the present. Original essays explore issues such as family, identity, labor, and gender. Selected primary documents from 1870 to the present review such topic as quotas in higher education, biculturalism, and refugees.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Interpretive Essays Introduction: The Worldview of Asian American Children by Benson Tong Invisible Historical Players: Uncovering the Meanings and Expereinces of Children in Early Asian American History by Yong Chen The Convergence of the Twain: Representations of Asians in St. Nicholas Magazine, 1888-1910 by Claudia Nelson Growing up in "Hop Alley": Chinese American Youth in St. Louis during the Early 20th Century by Huping Ling Race, Generation, and Culture among Japanese American Children and Adolesents during the Internment Era by Benson Tong Gender, Family, Community: Cultural Reconstruction among Teenage Laotionan Girls in Northern California by Bindi Shah Ensuring Upward Mobility: Obligations of Children of Immigrant Entrepreneurs by Lisa Sun-Hee Park Transnationalism among Second-Generation Asian Indians by Jean Bacon Documents First Experiences in America by Yan Phou Lee Immigration Interview Transcripts An Agreement to Assist a Young Girl Names Loi Yau Diary by Ah Quin The Curious Case of Ah-Top (A Chinese Legend) The Children of Chinatown in San Francisco by Theodore Wores Quiet Oddessey by Mary Paik Lee A Native Filipino's Impressions of America by Anonymous Juan, the Story of a Filipino Boy by Helen P. Beattie Gong Lum et al. v Rice et al.(1927) United States Supreme Court My Contact with Orientals by Miss Lentz (Teacher in Franklin High School, Seatlle) Interview with Miss Chiyo Otera Conducted by William C. Smith by Chiyo Otera Life History of J. Lim by J. Lim Interview with Thomas W. Chinn Interview conducted by Ruth Teiser Buddhism in the United States War Relocation Authority, Community Analysis Section The Autobiography of Wayne Hung Wong by Wayne Hung Wong My Viewpoint of the Evacuation by Stanley Hayami The War Stamps or Bond That You Bought Today by Fumiye Ando Education Section: Final Report, 1945 by Lloyd A. Garrison Stanley Hayami Diary by Stanley Hayami Letter from Ontario, Oregon, 1944 by Shirley Sugahiro The Homeless Asian American by Lee Fang Soukanthone "Aly" Vonckamchanch Interview conducted by Sheri A. Saunders Petition for Immigration of Amerasian Children by Unidentified Vietnamese Women Letter to U.S. Congress from Amerasian Youth by Lily Lee Life History Interview: Niloufer Aziz Interview conducted by Jean Bacon When Being Best Isn't Good Enough: Why Yat-Pang Won't Be Going to Berkeley by Linda Matthews Everybody Seemed to Be Either White, Black, or a Full Race by Lisa Graham Bibliography

About the Author

BENSON TONG is Assistant Professor of History at Wichita State University and the author of several books on Asian Americans and Native Americans.