With different histories, cultures, languages, and 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 come together to promote and protect both their individual and their united interests. The first book to examine this particular subject, "Asian American Panethnicity" is a highly detailed case study of how, and with what success, diverse national-origin groups can come together as a new, enlarged panethnic group. Yen Le Espiritu explores the construction of large-scale affiliations, in which previously unrelated groups submerge their differences and assume a common identity. Making use of extensive interviews and statistical data, she examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups, including those, like the Vietnamese and Cambodians, which are less powerful and prominent than the Chinese and Japanese. By citing specific examples educational discrimination, legal redress, anti-Asian violence, the development of Asian American Studies programs, social services, and affirmative action, the author demonstrates how Asian Americans came to understand that only by cooperating with each other would they succeed in fighting the racism they all faced. Yen Le Espiritu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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"Original and stimulating.... [Espiritu's] study raises compelling questions about the existing literature on ethnicity and her findings open up new avenues for research and analysis."
—Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of Racial Formation in the U.S. from the 1960s to the 1980s
—Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of Racial Formation in the U.S. from the 1960s to the 1980s
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A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage
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Yen Le Espiritu's book is probably the major source of research and theory dealing with Asian American panethnicity. While there are a few other researchers doing panethnicity work with other ethnic groups, this book remains the main source for those studying Asian Americans.Her summaries of theories of ethnicity are very short and perhaps leave out a little too much. But, the book does a good job of giving the reader an introduction to some major theories in preparation for her ideas. Her main areas are politics, funding, census classifications and anti-Asian violence. I appreciate this book a great deal in that it brings together some disparate pieces of information and puts it all in the context of panethnicity.
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Asian American, Los Angeles, United States, New York, Asian Week, Census Bureau, Filipino Americans, Asian Pacific, Bureau of the Census, San Francisco, Japanese Americans, Government Printing Office, Chinese American, Asian Indians, Southeast Asian, Census Advisory Committee, Pacific Islander, Vincent Chin, Coming Together, University of California, Electoral Politics, Eddie Wong, Amy Tachiki, San Diego, Franklin Odo Browse Sample Pages:
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Asian American, Los Angeles, United States, New York, Asian Week, Census Bureau, Filipino Americans, Asian Pacific, Bureau of the Census, San Francisco, Japanese Americans, Government Printing Office, Chinese American, Asian Indians, Southeast Asian, Census Advisory Committee, Pacific Islander, Vincent Chin, Coming Together, University of California, Electoral Politics, Eddie Wong, Amy Tachiki, San Diego, Franklin Odo Browse Sample Pages:
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- Asian American Studies After Critical Mass by Kent A. Ono in Front Matter, page 179, and page 192
- Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration by Richard Alba in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience by Angelo Ancheta in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness by Birgit Brander Rasmussen on page 292, and Back Matter
- Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects (Stanford Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Gordon Chang on page 341, and page 404
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