The state of Asian America : activism and resistance in the 1990s / edited by Karin Aguilar-San Juan ; foreword by David Henry Hwang ; afterword by M. Annette Jaimes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aguilar-San Juan, Karin, 1962-

Series:

Race and resistance series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Politics and government.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Physical Description:

xii, 394 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : South End Press, ©1994.

Contents:

The f̀our prisons' and the movements of liberation : Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu

Between black and white : an interview with Bong Hwan Kim / Elaine H. Kim

America's first multiethnic r̀iots / Edward T. Chang

Roses, rites, and racism : interview with Sophea Mouth / Sonia Shah

When know-nothings speak English only : analyzing Irish and Cambodian struggles for community development and educational equity / Peter Nien-Chu Kiang

Presenting the blue goddess : toward a national, Pan-Asian feminist agenda / Sonia Shah

Seeing yellow : Asian identites in film and video / Richard Fung

The exile within/the question of identity / Jessica Hagedorn with an interview by Karin Aguilar-San Juan

A shift in power, a sea change in the arts : Asian American constructions / David Mura

The predicament of Filipinos in the United States : Ẁhere are you from? When are you going back?' / E. San Juan, Jr.

Is the ethnic 'authentic' in the diaspora? / R. Radhakrishnan

Smells like racism : a plan for mobilizing against anti-Asian bias / Rita Chaudhry Sethi

The heat is on Miss Saigon coalition : organizing across race and sexuality / Yoko Yoshikawa

Identity in action : a Filipino American's perspective / Steven De Castro

Holding up more than half the heavens : domestic violence in our communities, a call for justice / Margaretta Wan Ling Lin, Cheng Imm Tan

Building an Asian Pacific labor alliance : a new chapter in our history / Kent Wong

Asian American studies : reevaluating for the 1990s / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Marilyn C. Alquizola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

Other Format:

Online version: State of Asian America.

ISBN:

0896084779

9780896084773

0896084760

9780896084766

OCLC:

28183802