Exhibits and Digitized Emphemera
- Civil Rights Suite Exhibit by CHSAIncludes background information, digitized primary source materials about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Chinese community in California's fight for civil rights.
Community Resources
Books
Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment by
Includes first-hand accounts by participants with detailed descriptions of assembly centers, concentration camps, and military and Justice Department internment camps; describes historic events; examines legal, political, and social ramifications; biographies of key individuals; discusses the significance of Japanese internment in Asian American history. Primary documents include Executive Order 9066, Public Law 503, and "Instructions to all Persons of Japanese Ancestry."
Call Number: D769.8.A6 E64 2013 + (REF,Asia reading room; also onlinePublication Date: 2013 (Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO)
Strangers from a Different Shore by Call Number: E184.O6 T13 1989ISBN: 0140138854Publication Date: 1990-09-01
The Best We Could Do by Call Number: E184.V53 B85 2017ISBN: 9781419718779Publication Date: 2017-03-07
The Making of Asian America by Call Number: E184.A75 L43 2015ISBN: 9781476739403Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Two Faces of Exclusion by Call Number: E184.A75 K87 2016ISBN: 9781469629438Publication Date: 2016-09-26
Paper Son: One Man's Story by Call Number: E184.C5 P27 2000Publication Date: 2000-10-09In this remarkable memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to this country with false documents during the exclusion era. Although scholars have pieced together their history, first-person accounts are rare and fragmented; many of the so-called "Paper Sons" lived out their lives in silent fear of discovery. Chin's story speaks for the many Chinese who worked in urban laundries and restaurants, but it also introduces an unusually articulate man's perspective on becoming Chinese American. Chin's story begins in the early 1930s, when he followed the example of his father and countless other Chinese who bought documents that falsely identified them as children of Chinese Americans.
