U.S History books that do not have a Eurocentric/"white" focus?

by lalliesaurus

I'd like to learn about events in American history might have impacted other ethnicities, such as Asian-American history, for instance.

For example, I remember when learning about the Red Scare in high school, we predominantly focused on the impact on Eastern Europeans, but it seems that it would have been interesting to learn about how it impacted Chinese residents, for instance, especially in context of the Yellow Peril.

I imagine there are a lot of events that are typically glossed over in a conventional American history class because of a Eurocentric/"white" focus which I would be very interested in learning about as well.

I am particularly interested in the 20th century and beyond, but a general U.S history book that reframes U.S history from this different perspective would be fascinating.

Dubstripsquads

Okay so this is a huge huge topic so i'll give you some of my personal favorites and/or quality works.

African Americans

  • Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I- Adriane Lentz-Smith

  • Black Newspapers and America's War for Democracy 1914-1920- William G. Jordan

  • The Double V: How Wars, Protest, and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military - Rawn James Jr.

  • Cold War Civil Rights - Mary Dudziak

  • African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement - Vincent Intondi

Asian Americans

  • Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago - Jacalyn Harden

  • No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'I During World War II - Franklin Odo

Hispanic Americans

  • No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement Cynthia Orozco

  • Raza Si! Guerra No! Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the Vietnam War Era - Lorena Oropeza

pfeifits

La Raza Unida Party by Armando Navarro opened my eyes to a very different perspective on American history. Others will have had better experience with Asian American histories.