Asian American panethnicity : bridging institutions and identities / Yen Le Espiritu.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1992.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans > Politics and government.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Asiático americanos > Política y gobierno.
Electronic books.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (JSTOR)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages).
Format: Electronic eBook
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.