Contemporary Asian American activism : building movements for liberation / edited by Diane C. Fujino and Robyn Magalit Rodriquez.

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"In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures requires collecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fujino, Diane Carol (Editor)
Rodriguez, Robyn Magalit (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
Series:Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Politics and government.
Asian Americans > Civil rights > History.
Asian American political activists.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Social movements > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Droits > Histoire.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Conditions sociales.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
Asian Americans > Civil rights.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Social movements.
United States.
Since 1980
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 322 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Building an archive of Asian American organizing praxis / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino
  • Prison-to-leadership pipeline : Asian American prisoner activism / Eddy Zheng
  • Ho'opono Mamo and restorative practices : reflections on scholar activism in juvenile justice systems change / Karen Umemoto
  • The streets of SoMA : building community amid displacement in San Francisco / Angelica Cabande, with Katherine Nasol
  • Dismantling the "undocumented Korean box" : race, education, and undocumented Korean immigrant activism for liberation / Ga Young Chung
  • Drivers on the frontlines : the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, neoliberalism, and global pandemic : an interview with Javaid Tariq / Diane C. Fujino
  • BAYAN USA : Filipino transnational radical activism in the United States in the twenty-first century / Jessica Antonio
  • Political education as revolutionary praxis / May C. Fu
  • "Organizing wherever your feet land" : reconceptualizing writing and writing instruction in the legacy of Asian American activism / Katherine H. Lee
  • How does it feel to be on the precipice? ChangeLab, a racial justice experiment / Soya Jung
  • On movement praxis in the era of Trumpism / Alex T. Tom
  • "Pete Wilson trying to see us all broke" : Asian American cross-racial student activism in 1990s California / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, with Wayne Jopanda
  • The struggle to abolish environmental and economic racism : Asian radical imagining from the homeland to the front line / Pam Tau Lee
  • Epilogue: Radical love for a new generation / Robyn Magalit Rodriquez.