Asian American panethnicity : bridging institutions and identities /

With different histories, cultures, languages, and separate identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid-1960s however, these different Asian American groups have co...

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Main Author: Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1992.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ethnicity and panethnicity
  • Coming together: the Asian American movement
  • Electoral politics
  • The politics of social service funding
  • Census classification: the politics of ethnic enumeration 112
  • Reactive solidarity: anti-Asian violence
  • Pan-Asian American ethnicity: retrospect and prospect.