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Americans First : Chinese Americans and the Second World War / Kevin Scott Wong.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674016712
  • 9780674045316
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54/089/951073
LOC classification:
  • E184.C5 -- W65 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Chinese America before the War -- 2. Chinatown Goes to War -- 3. The "Good Asian" in the "Good War" -- 4. Hawai'i's Local Warriors -- 5. The Fourteenth Air Service Group -- 6. Into the Mainstream -- Appendix. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Appendix: Employment Tables -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674045316

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Chinese America before the War -- 2. Chinatown Goes to War -- 3. The "Good Asian" in the "Good War" -- 4. Hawai'i's Local Warriors -- 5. The Fourteenth Air Service Group -- 6. Into the Mainstream -- Appendix. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index -- Appendix: Employment Tables -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)