Book Proposal » Tentative Table of Contents And Chapter Descriptions Tentative Table of Contents And Chapter DescriptionsChapter 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. (End of book)Our list of mini-biographies tentatively includes but is not limited to those of:
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