... THE PAST IN PRINT Asian American Labor History Sucheng Chan Gary Y. Okihiro, Catir Firrs: The. Anti-\apancse Mozwtirrit in Hawaii, 1865-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. $39.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Chris Friday, Orgatiizitzg...

...Gordon H. Chang 1992 Asian Americans and the Writing of Their History Gordon H. Chang Roger Daniels, Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 2850. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988. $17.50 (paper...

...Roseann Liu; Savannah Shange The 2014 killing of Akai Gurley, a Black New Yorker, at the hands of Chinese American rookie cop Peter Liang sparked months of protest and an increased interest in the fault lines between Asian American and Black communities in the United States. Drawing on ethnographic...

... quota system. Claiming that the new law discriminated against Europeans, Irish advocates framed their campaign as an effort to diversify the post-1965 immigrant pool, which was predominantly Asian and Latin American. By examining the rhetoric deployed in congressional hearings and media appearances...

.... Third, I look at how Thai restaurateurs, chefs, and white food critics used Thai food to define the racial, class, and gendered contours of a Thai American identity that was distinct from other Asian groups. Finally, I explain how community leaders tapped into an emerging political discourse...

..., provides no figures that could be readily read as black (or white or Asian or Native American), thus avoiding the search for and appraisal of racial content always presumed in nonwhite U.S. artists’ work and rarely perceived in that of their white counterparts. Even more obvious is that Griffin’s...

... This seminar attempts to examine the ways in which definitions of race, gender, and ethnicity define the experiences of Asians in the United States. One fundamental assumption that will always inform this seminar is that the experiences of a particular group-for instance, the Asian Americans- play...

... inequities with larger structural issues as they pertain to urban schooling in Los Angeles. It was at this moment that I rigorously attempted to connect theory and practice. Along with the field of Asian American studies, critical pedagogy allowed me to make sense of my history, a his- tory...

..., to reproduce again by its sheer inclusiveness a Euro-American perspec- tive: here is how ”we” Euro- Americ-ans“see” the ethnically indistin- guishable Asian American groups. A postmodern perspective asks instead how is the category of ”Asian American” constructed? Under what circumstances...

... issues on topics Ameras ia of special interest- Education and Asian Americans ( 1978 ) Journal Issues of interethnic Relations ( 1979...

... had set foot there.1 John Kuo Wei Tchen’s New York before Chi- natown brings Miller’s insight to full fruition. Through an appealing double maneu- ver, Tchen exposes not only the absolute centrality of “Asia” and “Asianness” to dom- inant American political...

... from all parts of the world. Thus we read Emma Goldman, Rosa Luxem- burg, stories of Chinese women, and interviews with Sandinista women, not just Marx and Engels or Lenin or Frantz Fanon. One of the most successful texts of the course was Asian Americans...

... Su therland (Martinez), Introduction Document: Selections from Warn to ”Colonized Women” in Report I1 Sisterhood Is Powerful. Vasquez, ”The Mexican American Asian-American Women Woman,” Ibid. Iwataki...

... Readings: Carlton Moss, ”For the Asian American, Afro-American, Native American, and Mexican American Filmmakers and their Friends,” in Russell Leong, ed., Moving the Image (1991). Daniel Czitrom, “American Motion Pictures and the New Popular Culture, 1893-1918 from daniel Czitrom...

... and Race at Columbia University. He has published several books in U.S. and African history, including Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies...

... candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His primary research interests are the formation and racialization of Vietnamese American youth gangs, identity and class, critical pedagogy, Asian American migration, and Asian American studies...

... to the shores represented in American society- how we originated in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia and North Amer- ica itself. But it also includes the different and often conflicting "shores" or perspectives from which scholars have viewed and understood the experien- ces of Asian Americans...

... that a revolution was needed in the United States.2 Radical sentiment ran even stronger in the African American community and by the early 1970s had penetrated deeply into the Puerto Rican, Chicano, Asian American, Radical History Review Issue 82 (winter 2002): 37–64 Copyright 2002 by MARHO: The Radical...

.... Garrett Hongo’s piece adds another Asian American voice to the course. None of these texts provide purely western or Asian points of view: they are voices of cultural hybridity. Kogawa and Hongo are Asian Americans, the poems, memoirs and essays from the Seldens’ book, while arguably the most...

... 29, 1989”; Becky Thompson, “Multiracial Feminism”; and Juliana Pegues, “Strategies from the Field: Organizing as an Asian American Feminist.” Other works included Yoko Fukumura amd Martha Matsuoka’s “Okinawa Women’s Resistance to US...