Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

In this volume, thirty leading scholars 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. It is an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped change the face of the United States.

In America's increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that mental health providers prioritize the development of their cultural competence to assure that they are equipped to meet the needs of their Asian and Pacific Islander American clients. This book is a must-read for mental health clinicians, students, community workers, school counselors, and nurses who work with diverse populations.

This work supplies a concise, easy-to-use, yet comprehensive resource on Asian American history, describing Asian American lives and experiences and documenting them as an essential part of the continuously evolving American experience and mosaic.

In this volume, thirty leading scholars offer original essays on a wide range of topics. It is an unprecedentedly detailed portrait of Asian Americans and how they have helped change the face of the United States.

This unique work presents an extraordinary breadth of contemporary and historical views on Asian America and Pacific Islanders, conveyed through the voices of the men and women who lived these experiences over more than 150 years.

While Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are growing faster than any other racial group in the U.S., they are all but invisible in higher education, and generally ignored in the research literature, and thus greatly misrepresented and misunderstood