The Asian American movement

The Asian American movement / William Wei.

Largely unexamined until recently, the Asian American Movement has been active for more than two decades. William Wei traces to the late 1960s the initial genesis of an Asian American identity, culture, and activism through which members of this pan-Asian group could assert their right to belong to...

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Main Author: Wei, William, 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1993.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Politics and government.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Asian Americans > Politics and government
Asian Americans > Social conditions
Soziale Bewegung
Politische Bewegung
USA
Asiaten.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins of the movement
  • Who am I? creating an Asian American identity and culture
  • Race versus gender: the Asian American women's movement
  • Speaking out: the Asian American alternative press
  • Activists and the development of Asian American studies
  • "To serve the people": reformers and community-based organizations
  • The emergence and eclipse of Maoist organizations
  • From radical to electoral politics: the Asian American odyssey for empowerment.

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