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A survey of U.S. history from its beginnings to the present, American History Unbound reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. In so doing, it is a work of both history and anti-history, a narrative that fundamentally transforms and deepens our understanding of the United States. This text is accessible and filled with engaging stories and themes that draw attention to key theoretical and historical interpretations. Gary Y. Okihiro positions Asians and Pacific Islanders within a larger history of people of color in the United States and places the United States in the context of world history and oceanic worlds.
Price: $39.95
Pages: 520
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
25 August 2015
Trim Size: 10.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780520274358
Format: Paperback
"...American History Unbound offers extremely important approaches to rethinking the history of the United States, and takes its place in the recent trend of a globally aligned (US) historiography that questions the construct of, and attempts to break the concept of the 'American Nation.'"
— Robert Kramm-Masaoka
"[Okihiro] effectively introduces little-known groups and immigrants from the Pacific to the broader context of American ethnic history... a major contribution."
"Noteworthy are Okihiro’s attention to the relationship between racial discourse and the historical segregation of Asian and Pacific Islander migrant laborers; his detailed rendering of the history of Asians in the United States through the nineteenth century; and his attention to the ethnic and geographic diversity of the Asian American experience."
"With American History Unbound, Okihiro offers a compelling and paradigm-shifting account of Asian American and Pacific Islander history."
Gary Y. Okihiro is Professor of International and Public Affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is the author of ten books, including his latest two, Island World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States (2008) and Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones (2009), both from UC Press. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association, received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ryukyus, and is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. WORLD HISTORY
1. Ocean Worlds
2. The World-System
3. The United States
4. Imperial Republic
PART 2. MIGRANT LABOR
5. Hawai'i
6. California
7. Northwest, Northeast, South, and North
PART 3. DEPENDENCY
8. Dependent Hawai'i
9. San Francisco
10. Seattle, New York City, Chicago
PART 4. WARS AND REALIGNMENTS
11. World War II
12. Militarized Zones
13. Global Transits
14. Regenerations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. WORLD HISTORY
1. Ocean Worlds
2. The World-System
3. The United States
4. Imperial Republic
PART 2. MIGRANT LABOR
5. Hawai'i
6. California
7. Northwest, Northeast, South, and North
PART 3. DEPENDENCY
8. Dependent Hawai'i
9. San Francisco
10. Seattle, New York City, Chicago
PART 4. WARS AND REALIGNMENTS
11. World War II
12. Militarized Zones
13. Global Transits
14. Regenerations
Notes
Index