Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University: Books
After using this guide, Stanford Libraries users will be able to identify and access primary and secondary sources about the history of the Asian and Asian American community at Stanford University.
Books
- Father and Glorious Descendant: A Story of Chinese Life in America by Pardee LoweCall Number: 973.0951 .L93LPublication Date: 1943Stanford graduate Pardee Lowe is said to be the first Chinese American author. His parents were active members of the Chinese community in San Francisco and Oakland, and Lowe continued to be extremely active in social, professional, alumni, and fraternal organizations and associations. Lowe's personal papers can be found in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on campus.
- Morning Glory, Evening Shadow by Gordon H. Chang, Yamato IchihashiCall Number: D769.8 .A6 I25 1997ISBN: 9780804727334Publication Date: 1997This book has a dual purpose. The first is to present a biography of Yamato Ichihashi, a Stanford University professor who was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States. The second purpose is to present, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only comprehensive first-person account of internment life by one of the 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who, in 1942, were sent by the U.S. government to "relocation centers," the euphemism for prison camps.
- The Chinese and the Iron Road by Gordon H. Chang; Shelley Fisher FishkinCall Number: HD8039 .R3152 C49 2019ISBN: 9781503608290Publication Date: 2019The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest Destiny. The Railroad made it possible to cross the country in a matter of days instead of months, paved the way for new settlers to come out west, and helped speed America's entry onto the world stage as a modern nation that spanned a full continent. It also created vast wealth for its four owners, including the fortune with which Leland Stanford would found Stanford University some two decades later. But while the Transcontinental has often been celebrated in national memory, little attention has been paid to the Chinese workers who made up 90 percent of the workforce on the Western portion of the line. The Railroad could not have been built without Chinese labor, but the lives of Chinese railroad workers themselves have been little understood and largely invisible. Edited by Stanford professor Gordon Chang, and includes his essay "The Chinese and the Stanfords."
- Final report of the University Committee on Minority Issues by Stanford UniversityCall Number: KFC666 .S72 1989Publication Date: 1989The final culmination of an 1987 University Committee on Minority Issues (UCMI) report established by the Stanford President and Provost in response to the a demand in minority awareness. The committee explores the concerns of the Rainbow Agenda, a list of demands from minority students, faculty, and staff at Stanford University, including the hiring of more minority faculty and staff, and more support for minority students.
- John Okada by Frank Abe, Greg Robinson, Floyd CheungCall Number: PS3565 .K33 Z69 2018ISBN: 9780295743516Publication Date: 2018No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada's untimely death at age forty-seven, the author's life and other works have remained obscure. Okada is known to be one of the first Asian American novelists, and is the namesake of the Okada House, the Asian American theme house at Stanford University.
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