The making of Asian America: a history

Beginnings : Asians in the Americas. Los Chinos in new Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies

The making of Asian America during the Age of Mass Migration and Asian Exclusion. Chinese immigrants in search of gold mountain ; "The Chinese must go!": the anti-Chinese movement ; Japanese immigrants and the "yellow peril" ; "We must struggle in exile": Korean immigrants ; South Asian immigrants and the "Hindu invasion" ; "We have heard much of America": Filipinos in the U.S. empire ; Border crossings and border enforcement: undocumented Asian immigration

Asian America in a world at war. "Military necessity": the uprooting of Japanese Americans during World War II ; "Grave injustices": the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II ; Good war, cold war

Remaking Asian America in a globalized world. Making a new Asian American through immigration and activism ; In search of refuge: southeast Asians in the United States ; Making a new home: Hmong refugees and Hmong Americans ; Transnational immigrants and global Americans

Twenty-first-century Asian Americans. The "rise of Asian Americans"? Myths and realities

Epilogue: redefining American in the twenty-first century.