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Original and expansive, Asian American Histories of the United States is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, award-winning historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare.Despite significant Asian American breakthroughs in American politics, arts, and popular culture in the twenty-first century, a profound lack of understanding of Asian American history permeates American culture.
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Catherine Ceniza Choy is the author of the forthcoming book, , from Beacon Press in their ReVisioning History book series in August 2022. The book features the themes of anti-Asian hate and violence, erasure of Asian American history, and Asian American resistance to what has been omitted in a nearly 200 year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US. Choy argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century. An engaged public scholar, Choy has been interviewed and had her research cited in many media outlets, including ABC 20/20, , NBC News, , ProPublica, , and Vox, on anti-Asian, coronavirus-related hate and violence, the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on Filipino nurses in the United States, and racism and misogyny in the March 16, 2021 Atlanta murders. The daughter of Filipino immigrants, Choy is Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice in UC Berkeley's Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) . She is a former Department Chair of Ethnic Studies and a former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies Division. She received her Ph. D. in History from UCLA and her B.A. in History from Pomona College.