{"product_id":"9781429980852","title":"Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in the 1950s when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for both Asian Americans -- the fastest-growing population in the United States -- and non-Asians, \u003ci\u003eAsian American Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e argues that America can no longer afford to ignore these emergent, vital, and singular American people.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153934500080,"sku":"9781429980852","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429980852_p0.jpg?v=1763751340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429980852","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}