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History : Asian American: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Asian American history.

Selected eBooks

Becoming Nisei: Japanese American Urban Lives in Prewar Tacoma
The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920
Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey
Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism
Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations
Uncle Rico's Encore: Mostly True Stories of Filipino Seattle
History on the Run: Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies
Grace after Genocide: Cambodians in the United States
The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History
The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America
Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service
Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II
A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority
The Making of Asian America : A History
Inclusion: How Hawai‘i Protected Japanese Americans from Mass Internment, Transformed Itself, and Changed America
Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the
Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America

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History eBook Collections

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Finding Books Beyond the UW

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Browsing Asian American History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though Asian American history is covered in under various subjects (e.g., there will be Asian American history in the women's history call numbers, the urban history call numbers, etc.) the major section for Asian American history is listed below.

E184 American ethnic history Suzzallo 3


For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.