Rethinking the Asian American Movement

by Daryl Joji Maeda

Book Overview

Although it is one of the least-known social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the Asian American movement drew upon some of the most powerful currents of the era, and had a wide-ranging impact on the political landscape of Asian America, and more generally, the United States. Using the racial discourse of the black power and other movements, as well as antiwar activist and the global decolonization movements, the Asian American movement succeeded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041580082X
• ISBN13: 9780415800822
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"