Asian American Women and Men Labor, Laws, and

Labor, laws, and love. Yen Le Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. Asian American Men and Women documents how the historical and contemporary oppression of Asians in the United States has (re)structured the balance of power between Asian American women and men and shaped their struggles to create and maintain social institutions and systems of meaning. Espiritu emphasizes how race, gender, and class, as categories of difference, do not parallel but instead intersect and confirm one other.

Yen Le Espiritu, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego

Series Editors' Introduction	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Labor, Laws, and Love	p. 1
Sociology and Asian American Studies	p. 1
Theorizing Race, Gender, and Class	p. 4
Asian Americans: Their Material and Cultural Lives	p. 8
Getting There From Here: Goals, Scope, and Methodology	p. 15
Stretching Gender, Family, and Community Boundaries, 1840s-1930s	p. 19
Labor Recruitment, Exclusion Laws, and the Shortage of Women	p. 20
Stretching the Boundaries of Family	p. 25
Work and Changing Gender Relations	p. 34
Conclusion	p. 47
Changing Lives: World War II and the Postwar Years	p. 49
Changing Power Relations: The Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans	p. 50
Improved Lives: Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans	p. 57
Asian Americans and Postwar America: The Emerging Middle Class	p. 60
New Arrivals: The "Separated" Wives, War Brides, and Refugees	p. 63
Conclusion	p. 69
Contemporary Asian America: Immigration, Increasing Diversity, and Changing Resources	p. 71
Immigration Laws, Labor Needs, and Changing Gender Composition	p. 73
Economic Diversity Among Contemporary Asian Immigrants	p. 74
Gender Relations Among Salaried Professionals	p. 78
Gender Relations Among Self-Employed Entrepreneurs	p. 82
Gender Relations Among Wage Laborers	p. 87
Conclusion	p. 94
Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance: Constructing Our Own Images	p. 97
Yellow Peril, Charlie Chan, and Suzie Wong	p. 99
Cultural Resistance: Reconstructing Our Own Images	p. 111
Controlling Images, Gender, and Cultural Nationalism	p. 117
Conclusion	p. 121
Beyond Dualisms: Constructing an Imagined Community	p. 123
Yellow as Neither Black nor White	p. 124
Asians as Neither Man nor Woman	p. 126
Race or Gender or Class	p. 129
Beyond Dualisms: Constructing an "Imagined Community"	p. 131
Works Cited	p. 137
Index	p. 167
About the Author	p. 175
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