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100 1 $aIshizuka, Karen L.,$eauthor.
245 10$aServe the People :$bMaking Asian America in the Long Sixties /$cKaren L. Ishizuka. [Forewod by Jeff Chang].
260 $aLondon :$bVerso,$c2018.
300 $axiii, 270 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aForeword / by 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.
520 8 $aThe political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political identity - and along the way created a racial group out of marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as Orientals. The Asian American Movement was an unabashedly radical social movement, sprung from campuses and city ghettos and allied with Third World freedom struggles and the anti-Vietnam War movement, seen as a racist intervention in Asia. It also introduced to mainstream America a generation of now internationally famous artists, writers, and musicians, like novelist Maxine Hong Kingston. Karen Ishizuka's definitive history is based on years of research and more than 120 extensive interviews with movement leaders and participants. It's written in a vivid narrative style and illustrated with many striking images from guerrilla movement publications. 'Serve the people' is a book that fills out the full story of the Long Sixties.--Publisher description.
650 0$aAsian Americans$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
650 0$aAsian Americans$xHistory.
650 0$aAsian Americans$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0$aAsian Americans$xSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0$aAsian Americans$xPolitical activity$y20th century.
651 0$aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1960-1980.
700 1 $aChang, Jeff,$eauthor of foreword.