Sucheng Chan
Sucheng Chan, the author of "Asian Americans, an Interpretive History", is currently a professor of history and is also the chair of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1973, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Not only a scholar and a professor, Chan is also an author. Her extraordinary work as a professor and a writer helped her win in prestigious awards in the literary community, such as the 1986 Theodore Salutoes Memorial Book Award in Agricultural History, the 1987 American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, and the 1988 Association for Asian American Studies Outstanding Book Award. Another award Chan has received in recognition of her academic work is a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. With so many years of experience, Chan, in my opinion, satisfied the scholarly qualifications for my writing about her book. The book "Asian Americans, an Interpretive History" starts with the very beginning of time when the people from China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, and India first immigrated to the United States. Throughout this book, Chan talks about the accomplishm
Chan's central thesis of this book, in my opinion, is that racial tension was, and still is, a serious problem in the United States, and Asian Americans have struggled through poverty, discrimination, and inequality to this day, and they must keep fighting to overcome the obstacles until they, or any other racial and ethnic group, can obtain true equality. I think this is the author's main proposition because Chan believes the effective method in truly explaining the Asian American experience is by depicting the life of struggle that had to be endured and the actions that had to be taken by Asian Americans in order to not be viewed as utter foreigners and outcasts of American society. Chan not only mentions the constant anti-Asian riot throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, she also stresses the States and Federals' action towards the minorities. For example, The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Law (denied the entry of Chinese laborers for ten years), the Immigration Act of 1924 (denied the entry of immigrants who were ineligible for citizenship into the U.S., which was also an attempt to end Japanese immigration), and Section 60 (banned marriages between whites and "Mongolians") are all examples of the Asian attitude of the majority of Whites that had to overcome by the early Asian Americans. In conclusio
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