Tentative Table of Contents And Chapter Descriptions

Chapter One: The Chinese Experiment, 1870-1900. The Chinese rail workers of East Texas; their status as "replacement workers" for newly freed African Americans; the Chinese-black families of Brazos Valley; the early Chinese community of Galveston and their role in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

Chapter Two: Chinese El Paso, 1881-1943. The Chinese rail workers of the Southern Pacific (second transcontinental); adventures with Judge Roy Bean; El Paso Chinatown; the wild Chinese West; reform of El Paso Chinese community. Biographies of Ben Mar and Herlinda Wong Chew.

Chapter Three: The Asian American Underground Railroad, 1882-1920. The rise and fall of the Asian American underground railroad that transported illegal Asian American immigrants from Mexico into the United States, largely through Ciudad Juarez-El Paso.

Chapter Four: Japanese Texas, 1900-1936. Rice colonies of East Texas; South Texas communities; early anti-Japanese movement; Taro Kishi, Texas Aggie runningback and early Asian Texan university student. Spotlight on Sen Katayama.

Chapter Five: Chinese San Antonio, 1917-1960. Pershing Chinese refugees of Mexican Revolution; development of Chinese community; first Chinese school; first Chinese church; life in the Chinese grocery store; Rose Wu and the campaign against Alien Land Law. Biography of Mary Eng.

Chapter Six: Asian Texans and World War II. Japanese Internment and Texas internment camps; Japanese Texan and Chinese Texan soldiers; Japanese American rescue of Texas "Lost Battalion" and its ramifications; seizure of Japanese Texan property including Japanese Tea Garden of San Antonio; the end of Asian Exclusion; the Chinese Texans during World War II; the early status of Filipino, Indian and Korean Texans. Stories of Frank Fujita and Julian Mardock.

Note: Little research exists, and little research has been done on the histories of non-Chinese/Japanese Asian Texans. So the following chapters are not described in detail.

Chapter Seven: Filipino Texans.

Chapter Eight: Korean Texans; Dr. Suzanne Ahn of Dallas.

Chapter Nine: Indian Texans; Kalpana Chawla.

Chapter Ten: Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Nepalese Texans.

Chapter Eleven: Post-war Japanese Texans.

Chapter Twelve: Post-war Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Konger, and Singaporean Texans. Dallas and Houston ethnic Chinese American communities.

Chapter Thirteen: Vietnamese Texans; Gulf Coast communities and urban communities; Dat Nguyen.

Chapter Fourteen: Cambodian, Laotian, Thai, Hmong, and Burmese Texans.

Chapter Fifteen: Tibetan and Mongolian Texans.

Chapter Sixteen: Indonesian, Malay, and Other Asian Texans.

Chapter Seventeen: Pacific Islander Texans.

Chapter Eighteen: The Houston Asian American Community. One of the largest, most prominent Asian American communities in the United States.

Chapter Nineteen: A Sociological and Demographic Analysis of Asian Texas.

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Our list of mini-biographies tentatively includes but is not limited to those of:

Dr. Suzanne Ahn: Korean American civil rights activist of Dallas.
Kalpana Chawla: Indian American Space Shuttle astronaut of Houston, Texas.
Herlinda Wong Chew: Chinese El Pasoan immigrant activist, who lobbied for the entrance into El Paso of Chinese Mexican refugees during the Mexican Revolution.
Frank "Foo" Fujita: Japanese Texan soldier of World War II who was captured by the Japanese Army.
Ben Mar: Benevolent mayor of El Paso during good times and bad.
Dat Nguyen: Vietnamese American middle linebacker for Dallas Cowboys, from Rockport, Texas.
Rose Wu and Mary Eng: Chinese San Antonio political and community activists.