Dragon wings by laurence yep

America is a country that is famous for opening its borders to all types of people. This includes the original British citizens who came here to escape religious persecution, the blacks forced to come as slaves, and the Asians who came in a desperate need for money. The Tang people came to America to build railroads and work mines hoping they will make enough money to support their families back home. These cheaper workers took the jobs no one else wanted and some jobs that others might have demanded too much money to do. Many Tang went home injured or missing limbs, giving America a bad reputation.

When this novel opens, the Tang people have settled down in different areas, making lives for themselves in their own tightly knit communities. The hostility that they feel from the Americans, people they call demons, comes not only from a past filled with the tension of the jobs they did for so little money, but also from the fact that the Tang are different, speak differently, and have different customs. Often the white demons feel fear from their strange customs. This novel attempts to show the reader what it was like for these people, coming to a strange land only to face prejudice and misunderstanding.