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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789956303321

Autore

Maeda Daryl J.

Titolo

Rethinking the Asian American movement / / Daryl Joji Maeda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-59925-8

1-283-46206-0

9786613462060

0-203-35748-5

1-136-59926-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 189 pages)

Collana

American social and political movements of the twentieth century

Disciplina

305.895/073

Soggetti

Asian Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

Asian Americans - Social conditions - 20th century

United States Race relations History 20th century

United States Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on online resource; title from pdf title page (EBSCO, viewed on March 22, 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Rethinking the Asian American Movement; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Reframing the Movement; 1. Key Organizations; 2. Campus Activism; 3. Community Activism in Cities and the Countryside; 4. Arts and Culture; 5. Interracialism, Internationalism, and Intersections of Gender and Race; 6. Consolidations and Transformation; 7. Conclusion: The Asian American Movement Remix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although it is one of the least-known social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the Asian American movement drew upon some of the most powerful currents of the era, and had a wide-ranging impact on the political landscape of Asian America, and more generally, the United States. Using the racial discourse of the black power and other movements, as well as antiwar activist and the global decolonization movements, the Asian American movement succeeded in creating a multi-ethnic alliance of Asians in the United States and gave them a



voice in their own destinies. Rethinking the Asian