Major Problems in Asian American History: Documents and Essays (Major Problems in American History) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Lon Kurashige is associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. He is author of Perfect Storm of Exclusion: Asian Americans, Political Debate, and the Making of a Pacific Nation (Chapel Hill-University of North Carolina Press, 2016) and Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990 (University of California Press, 2002), winner of the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He co-edited "Conversations in Transpacific History," a special edition of Pacific Historical Review (2014). His article "Rethinking Anti-Immigrant Racism: Lessons from the Los Angeles Vote on the 1920 Alien Land Law" won the Carl I. Wheat prize for best publication to appear in the Southern California Quarterly between 2012 and 2014. His writings have appeared in Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, Reviews in American History, and other academic journals.

Alice Yang, assistant professor of History at the University of California-Santa Cruz, received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994. Her academic interests include Asian American history, women's history, and twentieth-century U.S. history. Her most recent publication is an article entitled "Ilse Women and the Early Korean Community," which was published in KOREAN AMERICAN WOMEN: LIVING IN TWO CULTURES and reprinted in UNEQUAL SISTERS: A MULTICULTURAL READER IN U.S. WOMEN'S HISTORY.