The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s

by Karin Aguilar-San Juan, (ed.)

1994

Status

Available

Call number

305.895

Series

Race and Resistance Series

Tags

E184.O6 S7 1994

Genres

Publication

South End Press

DDC/MDS

305.895

Description

'Every essay in the State of Asian America brings the reader to a new plateau of understanding....All the essays are thought-provoking, disturbing, and enlightening. Every writer is worth the read.' Korean QuarterlyThis is a series of essays that give voice to contemporary Asian-American activism, offering thoughtful, radical analyses on a range of pressing issues, including: the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, the protest against the Broadway musical Miss Saigon, anti-Asian and domestic violence, feminism, neo-conservatism, art and politics, the social construction of race, and the politics of Asian American Studies.

Subjects

Asian Americans Ethnic identity
Asian Americans Politics and government

ISBN

0896084760 / 9780896084766

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