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In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960's and early 1970's, 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 States... No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.895Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism Other Groups Asian OriginLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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