Serve the people : making Asian America in the long sixties / Karen L. Ishizuka.

"The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of co...

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Main Author: Ishizuka, Karen L. (Author)
Other Authors: Chang, Jeff (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: London : Verso, 2016.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > History > 20th century.
Asian Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
Asian Americans > Political activity > 20th century.
Asian Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980.
Physical Description:xiii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Jeff Chang
  • Introduction : Wherefore Asian America?
  • Act I : American Chop Suey. Growing up alien in America
  • Living in B&W
  • Act II : Once in Movement. Yellow power
  • Spontaneous arisings
  • Gooks
  • To serve the people
  • Arts of activism
  • Other wars
  • Act III : Finding Our Truth. Self-appraisals and evaluations
  • Generations to come.