Readings Asian Pacific History

A list of books and articles regarding Asian Pacific American history and culture in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest:

• Ancheta, Angelo N. Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

• Azuma, Eiichiro. “A History of Oregon’s Issei, 1880 – 1952.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 94 (1993): 315 – 367.

• Chan, Sucheng. “The Exclusion of Chinese Women, 1870-1943.” Chinese America: History and Perspectives (1994): 75-125.

• Clark, Malcom, Jr. “The Bigot Disclosed: 90 Years of Nativism.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 75 (1974): 123-131

• Corbett, P. Scott and Nancy Parker Corbett. “The Chinese in Oregon, ca. 1870-1880,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 78 (1977): 73-85.

• DeWolfe, Fred, ed. “Portlander John Reed Remembers Lee Sing, His Family’s Chinese Servant.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 97 (1996): 356 – 372.

• Edson, Christopher J. Chinese in Eastern Oregon, 1860-1890. San Francisco, R & E Research Association, 1974

• Eisenberg, Ellen. “’As Truly American as Your Son:’ Voicing Opposition to Internment in Three West Coast Cities.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 104 (2003): 542-565.

• Ho, Nelson Chia-Chi. Portland’s Chinatown: The History of an Urban Ethnic District. Portland Bureau of Planning, 1975.

• Japanese Garden Society of Oregon. The Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. Portland, 1973.

• Johnson, Daniel P. “Anti-Japanese Legislation in Oregon, 1917-1923.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 97 (1996): 176-210.

• Kessler, Lauren. Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family. 1st ed., New York, Random House, 1993.

• Kodachi, Zuigaku, with Jan Keikkala, trans., and Janet Cormack, ed. “Portland Assembly Center: Diary of Saku Tomita.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 81 (1980): 149 – 72.

• Merriam, Paul G. “The ‘Other Portland’: A Statistical Note on Foreign-Born, 1860 – 1910.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 80 (1979): 258 – 68.

• Nakata, Deena K. The Gift: The Oregon Nikkei Story Retold. Portland, Ore., Deeka K. Nakata, 1995.

• Olmstead, Timothy. “Nikkei Internment: The Perspective of Two Oregon Weekly Newspapers.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 85 (1 1984): 5 – 32.

• Penner, Liisa. The Chinese in Astoria, Oregon, 1870-1880: A Look at Local Newspaper Articles, the Census, and other Related Materials. Astoria, 1990.

• Pereyra, Lilliana. “The Catholic Church and Portland’s Japanese: The Untimely St. Paul Miki School Project.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 94 (1993/94): 399 – 434.

• Schwantes, Carlos A. “Protest in a Promised Land: Unemployment, Disinheritance and the Origin of Labor Militancy in the Pacific Northwest, 1885-1886.” Western Historical Quarterly 13 (1982): 373-390.

• Tamura, Linda. The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon’s Hood River Valley. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

• Tamura, Linda. “Railroads, Stumps, and Sawmills: Japanese Settlers of the Hood River Valley.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 94 (1993-94): 369-98.

• Thornton, Brian. “Exceptions to the Rule: Chinese Merchants and the Exclusion Laws, 1890-1894." Pacific Northwest Forum 6 (1992): 50-59.

• Wei, Timothy Philip. “‘So Truly Heathen and So Thoroughly Americanized’: The Construction of the Chinese Race and the Chinatown Ghetto in Nineteenth Century Portland, Oregon.” Thesis, Reed College, 1991.

• Wong, Karen C. Chinese History in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, 1972.