Asian Americans in Michigan : voices from the Midwest / edited by Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew ; with a foreword by Frank H. Wu and an afterword by Bich Minh Nguyen.

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"In Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest, editors Sook Wilkinson and Victor Jew have assembled forty-one diverse contributors to give an intimate glimpse into Michigan's Asian American communities. Contributors create a fuller picture of these often overlooked groups, including the h...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Great Lakes books.
Other Authors: Wilkinson, Sook (Editor)
Jew, Victor (Editor)
Wu, Frank H., 1967- (writer of introduction, etc.)
Nguyen, Beth (writer of afterword,, colophon, etc.)
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2015]
Series:Great Lakes books.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Michigan > History.
Asian Americans > Michigan > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Michigan > History.
Immigrants > Michigan > Social conditions.
Asian Americans.
Michigan > Ethnic relations.
Michigan.
Physical Description:xviii, 370 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I. Taking soundings of Asian America in Michigan
  • II. Legacy keeping and memory keepers
  • III. Culture and heritage
  • IV. Life journeys
  • V. Contemporary prospects and voices of the future
  • Appendix : Milestones of Asian Americans in the United States.
  • Foreword / Frank H. Wu
  • Preface / Sook Wilkinson
  • Introduction / Victor Jew
  • A demographic portrait of Asian Americans in Michigan / Kurt R. Metzger
  • Asian Americans and Michigan : a long transnational legacy / Victor Jew
  • "Tell 'em you're from Detroit" : Chinese Americans in the model city / Chelsea Zuzindlak
  • "Ambassadors" in the heartland : Asian American racial and regional identity formations in Michigan / Barbara W. Kim
  • Genealogy of a Detroit childhood / Min Hyoung Song
  • The making of an Asian American Detroiter / Grace Lee Boggs
  • Three legacy keepers : the vices of Chinese, Korean, and Indo-American Michiganders / Tai Chan, Tukyul Andrew Kim, Kul B. Gauri
  • The history of nikkei (Japanese) in Detroit / Toshiko Shimoura
  • From hammered-down nail to squeaky cog : the modern Japanese American experience in Detroit / Asae Shichi
  • Bangladeshis in Hamtramck / Durriya Meer
  • A brief history of Filipino Americans in Michigan / Emily P. Lawsin, Joseph A. Galura
  • How to cook like a banana / Anna M. Shih
  • My mother and the kimchee jar / Kook-Wha Koh
  • Going back to Chinese school / Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
  • Mediating through memory : the Hmong in Michigan / Jeffrey Vang
  • Growing up in Michigan / Lawrence G. Almeda
  • Shoveling and heaving : Michigan's Manangs and Manongs / Emily P. Lawsin
  • Adoption as crucible / Jen Hilzinger
  • The long homecoming : being Chinese and American in Michigan / Katherine M. Lee
  • My family's experience of the Japanese American internment camps / Dylan Sugiyama
  • Growing up Hapa in Ann Arbor / Lynet Uttal
  • The apology / Catherine Chung
  • Cars, prejudice, and God / Kyo Takahashi
  • A journey begins on April 30, 1975 : being Vietnamese American in Michigan / Mimi Doan-Trang Nguyen
  • A strange land / Elaine Lok
  • Day remembered / Ti-Hua Chang
  • Asian Pacific Americans in higher education in Michigan / Leslie E. Wong, Brianna Reckeweg
  • Political engagement of Michigan Asian Americans / Sook Wilkinson
  • Arirang / Kira A. Donnell
  • Five seconds / Sheila Xiong
  • A search for Hyerim / Rachel Hyerim Sisco
  • Politics runs in the family / Samir Singh
  • Unconscious and unrecognized / Emily Hsiao
  • Afterword / Bich Minh Nguyen
  • Suggestions for further reading / Victor Jew.