“An impressive new work about how major moments in Asian American history continue to influence the modern world . . . . An empathetic and detailed recounting of Asian American histories rarely found in textbooks.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“Sharply drawn profiles of individual Asian Americans add depth to Choy’s broad overview and bring historic events to dramatic life. The result is an essential reconsideration of American history.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An essential and illuminating resource.”
—Booklist
“Choy grapples resourcefully and brilliantly with the overriding question of just how and why in the current time it is that Asian Americans find themselves, notwithstanding their lengthy history, the target of so much hate in this country.”
—Nichi Bei Weekly
“Choy’s volume is artful, strident, meaningful, and highly readable, with pressing, contemporary, practically torn-from-the-headlines relevance, remarkable for its thoughtful blend of affecting individual stories, and also remarkable as a heartfelt lookback at our heterogenous ‘origin stories’ and ‘stories in progress…'”
—Ravi Chandra, East Wind Ezine
“Written with love and respect for our communities, this book illuminates histories as diverse as Asian America itself.”
—Grace M. Cho, author of National Book Award–finalist Tastes Like War
“I promise you, this is unlike any history you’ll ever read—a book only Catherine Ceniza Choy could have written.”
—Anthony Christian Ocampo, author of The Latinos of Asia
“A brilliant, perceptive historian.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
“Professor Choy offers an evocative meditation on the histories of Asian Americans, histories that powerfully connect our past with our present.”
—Vicki L. Ruiz, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine
“A powerful and effective nonlinear account of how we came to the present moment.”
—Beth Lew-Williams, author of The Chinese Must Go
“Asian American Histories of the United States inspires us to link personal biographies with global histories and tragic pasts with hope-filled futures.”
—Theodore S. Gonzalves, twenty-first president of the Association for Asian American Studies