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N.E.H. Civil Rights Institute: Related Materials

Asian Americans and Labor

Bulosan, Carlos. America Is In The Heart. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1943)

Friday, Chris. Organizing Asian American Labor: The Pacific Coast Canned-Salmon Industry, 1870-1942 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994)

Yu, Renqui. To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (Philadephia: Temple University Press, 1992)

Asian Americans and Socialism

Ichioka, Yuji. "A Buried Past: Early Issei Socialists and the Japanese Community," Amerasia Journal 1 (1971)

Lai, Him Mark. "To Bring Forth a New China, To Build A Better America: The Chinese Marxist Left in America to the 1960s," Chinese America: Hstory and Perspectives (1992)


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