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Chains of Babylon : the rise of Asian America /
In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Critical American studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of "Asian American" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, Asian American radicals argued that all Asians in the United States should resist assimilation and band together to oppose racism within the country and imperialism abroad. As revealed in Maeda's in-depth work, the Asian American movement contended that people of all Asian ethnicities in the United S. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816670659 081667065X 0816648905 9780816648900 0816648913 9780816648917 |