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
Though Chan successfully portrays the struggles and the accomplishments of Asian Americans, I find her writing a bit repetitive and biased. In my opinion, a successful book doesn't need to balance, but should contain two sides of an argument regardless of the validity of either side. Furthermore, despite the endless struggles Asian Americans had in the past, Chan also mentions the improvement of the status of Asian Americans over the past few decades and the decrease of racial inequality in this country. , 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. The huge anti-Asian violence at Rock Springs in Wyoming Territory in September 1885 which resulted in 28 deaths and many more wounded, resulted in losses totaling more than $147,000. ents and struggles of the Asian Americans from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Chan's main focus or main emphasis is the impact Asian Americans have on the history of the United States, whether it is political, agricultural, or economical. Some of the hurt eventually died from their wounds. Her sources not only are reliable and academic, but they are also very specific in their own field. She is probably trying to make her argument more conspicuous by repetition to ingrain her point in the heads of the readers, and even though she didn't objectively states her biased view, by covering most of the materials with the negative aspect of Asian American's history she subjectively reflected her biased viewpoint, which is the unfair treatment of Asian American by the Euro-Americans. However, she ends with the intention of urging everyone, regardless of his/her race, gender, or ethnicity, to work steadfastly towards the curtailment of the racial tensions. 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. Moreover, one can find much evidence that support Chan's argument throughout the book.
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