In Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present, prominent historians Roger Daniels and Otis L. Graham offer competing interpretations of the past, present, and future of American immigration policy and American attitudes towards immigration. Through original essays and supporting primary documents, the authors provide recommendations for future policies and legal remedies. This compact and clearly written text is an excellent introduction to one of...

A factual account and clarification of the integral roles of Asians in American history focuses on the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the early 1980s.

Using an interdisciplinary approach of history and social science, the authors compare the experiences of Asian Americans who have grown from predominantly Chinese and Japanese of the 1960s to include the Filipinos, Asian Indians, the Koreans, the Pacific Islanders, and the southeast Asians. The authors believe this transformation is the result of changes in American foreign and domestic policy, the war in Vietnam, and changes in U.S. immigration...

The essays in this volume look at Asian Americans, their ideas and ways of life, on their own terms, relating them to both Asian and United States history. Roger Daniels presents an overview of East Asian immigrants through a review of the literature by American historians. An essay by Stanford M. Lyman, which follows, analyzes San Francisco's Chinatown before 1910, and offers an interpretation in terms of sociology of conflict. Harry H.L. Kitano's...