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Contains records for all print and digital holdings of CWRU and affiliated libraries.

Explore characters

While The Fortunes is a work of fiction, Davies incorporates the stories of real-life individuals. One of these individuals, Anna May Wong, has been the subject of additional academic study. One way you can learn more about her is by searching her name in the online catalog using the 'subject' index.

Likewise, the feature character of chapter three, Vincent Chin, is the subject of a documentary, Who Killed Vincent Chin? Several OhioLINK libraries own a copy. Can you find one?

Explore topics

While written from a historical viewpoint, The Fortunes touches upon twenty-first century hot topics such as immigration and abortion. Explore these and other topics in greater detail through the CQ Researcher database, available to you through Kelvin Smith Library.

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A database of in-depth, authoritative reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923. Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.

Explore Asian American Culture and History

Use the online catalog to locate even more resources from Kelvin Smith Library. Or, click on one of the three titles listed below. Take a look at the blue links in each item record to see additional subject headings. For example, 'Asian Americans -- history' is another subject heading you can search in our catalog to find more resources associated with that topic.

The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
ISBN: 9781476739427
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
The Making of Asian America shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life, from sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500 to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. But as Lee shows, Asian Americans have continued to struggle as both "despised minorities" and "model minorities," revealing all the ways that racism has persisted in their lives and in the life of the country.
A New History of Asian America by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
ISBN: 9780415879538
Publication Date: 2013-09-09
In A New History of Asian America, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America.
The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History by David K. Yoo (Editor); Eiichiro Azuma (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199860463
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
This volume traces Asian American history from the beginning of the migration flows toward the Pacific Islands and the American continent to Japanese American incarceration and Asian American participation in World War II, from the experience of exclusion, violence, and racism to the social and political activism of the late twentieth century. The authors explore many of the key aspects of the Asian American experience, including politics, economy, intellectual life, the arts, education, religion, labor, gender, family, urban development, and legal history. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History demonstrates how the roots of Asian American history are linked to visions of a nation marked by justice and equity, and is a detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped change the face of the United States.