Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest (Great Lakes Books Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814332811 ISBN 13: 9780814332818

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Explores a neglected cultural and social history from a variety of perspectives.

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About the Author

Sook Wilkinson, Ph.D. is an author, psychologist, and community leader who has devoted more than thirty years of her life to improving the lives of others. Passionate about giving back, she serves as vice chair of the board of trustees at Northern Michigan University, USA. She is active on many nonprofit and advisory boards, including those of Global Detroit and the Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum. Previously, she served as chair of the Michigan Governor's Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission.

Victor Jew received his B.A. in history from the University of California-Los Angeles, USA and his doctorate in U.S. history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, where he currently teaches in the Asian American Studies Program. He taught at institutions such as Cornell University, USA and Michigan State University, USA, where he offered that campus's first course in Asian American history. He has written on anti-Asian violence in the nineteenth century (Milwaukee in 1889 and Los Angeles in 1871) and is working on a history of Asian American communities in the Midwest from 1870 to the present.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814332811
• ISBN 13: 9780814332818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Wilkinson Sook, Jew Victor