Download or read book Island written by H. Mark Lai and published by San Francisco Study Center. This book was released on 1980 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Angel Island written by Erika Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station. For many, this was the real gateway to the United States. For others, it was a prison and their final destination, before being sent home. In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Drawing on extensive new research, including immigration records, oral histories, and inscriptions on the barrack walls, the authors produce a sweeping yet intensely personal history of Chinese "paper sons," Japanese picture brides, Korean students, South Asian political activists, Russian and Jewish refugees, Mexican families, Filipino repatriates, and many others from around the world. Their experiences on Angel Island reveal how America's discriminatory immigration policies changed the lives of immigrants and transformed the nation. A place of heartrending history and breathtaking beauty, the Angel Island Immigration Station is a National Historic Landmark, and like Ellis Island, it is recognized as one of the most important sites where America's immigration history was made. This fascinating history is ultimately about America itself and its complicated relationship to immigration, a story that continues today.
Download or read book Angel Island written by Lori Mortensen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Angel Island Immigration Station and why it is a symbol of hope and struggle.
Download or read book Angel Island written by Branwell Fanning and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Island, in the Town of Tiburon, is a mile-square jewel set in San Francisco Bay that attracts thousands of visitors each year. Few of those who hike, bike, camp, or enjoy the spectacular vistas in this California State Park realize its diverse history. From the Spanish ships that anchored at Ayala Cove in 1775 to the 1960s cold war-era missile silos, Angel Island has endured to become one of the most popular parks in the state. Although many building were demolished, there are still countless reminders of the island's multifaceted evolution, including a quarantine station, army base, and immigration station.
Download or read book Angel Island written by Russell Freedman and published by Clarion Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the port of entry off the coast of California that was "the other Ellis Island" for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940.
Download or read book Angel Island Immigration written by Jamie Kallio and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the factual details of immigration through the Angel Island station, which is near San Francisco, California. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a male Chinese immigrant, a Chinese woman coming to join her immigrant husband, and a missionary woman trying to help Chinese immigrants. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.
Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.
Download or read book Immigration at the Golden Gate written by Robert Eric Barde and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-03-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being welcomed, were denied liberties and even entrance to the United States.
Download or read book Kai s Journey to Gold Mountain written by Katrina Saltonstall Currier and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his 12th birthday, Kai learns that he must leave his home in China and journey alone to Gold MountainAmericato live with his father. The year is 1934, and the U.S. does not welcome Chinese immigrants. When Kai arrives he is detained on Angel Island in a crowded barracks, with harsh interrogations and the threat of being returned to China. Will Kai ever be free to join his father?
Download or read book Angel Island written by Alice K. Flanagan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the immigration station on the West coast.
Download or read book Li on Angel Island written by Veeda Bybee and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Li, her mother, and her brother journey from China to America to join their father in San Francisco. But they are detained at the Angel Island immigration center, where Chinese Americans are subject to harsh treatment and questioning. Will Li be able to answer the detailed questions about her former home, and why she wants to come to America? Or will she fail the tests and be deported?
Download or read book Miwoks to Missiles written by John Soennichsen and published by Angel Island Association. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete history of Angel Island -- a journey through more than 200 years: Miwok Indians, Spanish explorers, soldiers, immigrants appear here in their varied roles -- a kaleidoscope of people and events from 1775 to the present.
Download or read book Wild Geese Sorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New translations of the poems left behind at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
Download or read book Angel Island the Ellis Island of the West written by Mary E. (Mary Ellen) Bamford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Island served as the primary port of entry for immigrants to the West Coast of the United States for over thirty years. Known as the 'Ellis Island of the West', it played a significant role in shaping the history of the American West. This book provides a fascinating look at the people, places, and events that shaped Angel Island. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Angel Island Conspiracy written by Robert Banks Hull and published by . This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1981 in San Francisco and the American people are oblivious to the acts of terrorism that will befall the World in years to come. However, a conspiracy is developing right on San Francisco Bay that foreshadows the future. Two San Francisco Bay sailors, Travis and Carol, fall upon this terrorist plot; a plan to destroy a major San Francisco Bay landmark by a most ingenious method. They battle both the bad guys and the authorities in their quest to stop this horrific event from taking place. With their superb sailing skills and intimate knowledge of San Francisco Bay, they have the advantage as they duel the bad guys from Sausalito to Alcatraz to San Pablo Bay. As they race for their lives to escape their pursuers, Travis and Carol use every sailor's trick and turn of the tides that San Francisco Bay has to offer as their only weapons with astonishing success. Whether the reader is a sailor or not, the excitement and satisfaction of reading how two regular citizens can prevail against professional evildoers is an old story, but with a thrilling new twist in The Angel Island Conspiracy.
Download or read book The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island written by Judy Yung and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island will introduce students to a broader and more inclusive vision of U.S. immigration history and, ultimately, a better understanding of the world we live in. What is uniquely important about this book are the personal stories and viewpoints of proponents and opponents of the Chinese exclusion laws; of Chinese immigrants who posed as “paper sons” and “paper daughters” to evade the exclusion laws; and of immigration officials who held strong convictions about how the immigration laws should be enforced. The introduction provides students with an over-arching historical, socio-economic, and political context by which to understand the compilation of primary documents that follow. For the same reason, each document has its own headnote with background information about the author and comments on its historical significance. Further pedagogical aids include a Chronology, new Questions for Consideration, and a revised Selected Bibliography.
Download or read book Angel Island written by Inez Haynes Gillmore and published by Wordfire Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover a 20th-century classic of feminist fantasy... After surviving a shipwreck, five men are stranded on a deserted island...until they are discovered by five beautiful, winged women. Instantly, the men become infatuated with the women's abilities and attempt to lure them in with all of the riches and treasures that washed ashore. Letting their desires guide their decisions, their plan unfolds...and their world changes forever. This 1914 feminist classic has been republished with a brand-new foreword done by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Moesta. Inez Haynes Gillmore wrote over forty books, many on the topics of women's issues and rights. Step or fly into the world that Inez Haynes Gillmore has created and rediscover the imaginary world of Angel Island.
