Asian Americans in Michigan

In this book we record the multiple means of becoming Asian American, participating in the great democratic experiment. Now we reveal that each of us has our own unique set of experiences, but we have universal memories as well. We are not alone as Asian Americans, any more than we are all the same.

~Frank H. Wu

This is a remarkable book on the Asian American experience. The topics are very current, and the many voices, some familiar, are detailed and articulate. It's much more than an Asian American anthology; it's a racial and ethnic history, and the continuing legacy in regional America not normally thought of as home to Asians - Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and other northern Midwest states. Now these voices can be heard.

~Bill Drucker

The editors and other contributors to this multi-vocal anthology are to be commended not only for their estimable scholarship, but also for rendering a formidable service to Asian American community-building in Michigan. This book sets the stage for a full-dress treatment of the Asian American experience in the entire Midwest region.

~Art Hansen

Over forty authors contributed to this portrait of the mosaic that is Midwestern Asian American life. The book opens with a helpful demographic analysis of Asian Americans in Michigan, using statistics from the 2000 and 2010 US censuses, and proceeds to an interesting history of the growth of Michigan's varied Asian American population [. . .]

~Carl L. Bankston III

This is a special book. Between its covers, people write with incredible honesty. There is pain, joy, bitterness, and laughter. Readers cannot help but be moved, though no two people will experience exactly the same feelings. The glimpses they get of such deep emotions will do the book's work of conveying the rich and unique range of experiences of being Asian American in the Midwest, far from the larger communities on the East and West coasts.

~Joe Grimm, Author of Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and Co-Author of Coney Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 2012)