Description

Asian Americans are emerging as a political force and yet their politics have not been systematically studied by either social scientists or politicians. Asian American politics transcend simple questions of voting behavior and elective office, going all the way back to early immigration laws and all the way forward to ethnic targeting. For the first time, this book brings together original sources on key topics influencing Asian American politics, knit together by expert scholars who introduce each subject and place it in context with political events and the greater emerging literature. Court cases, legislation, demographics, and key pieces on topics ranging from gender to Japanese American redress to the Los Angeles riots to Wen Ho Lee round out this innovative reader on a politically active group likely to grow in number and electoral impact.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: Understanding Asian American Politics
Part 3 I Historical Forms of Civic Engagement and Protest: Selected United States Supreme Court Cases
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 Historical Struggles for Equal Protection Rights
Chapter 6 1.1 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886)
Chapter 7 1.2 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
Chapter 8 Historical Struggles for Naturalization Rights
Chapter 9 Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922)
Chapter 10 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923)
Part 11 II The Impact of Immigration Laws on Asian America
Chapter 12 Introduction
Chapter 13 2.1 Immigration Act of 1924
Chapter 14 2.2 Making and Remaking Asian America: Immigration Policy
Part 15 III The Period of Political Incorporation (1965 to Present)
Chapter 16 Introduction
Chapter 17 Political Research and Demographic Trends
Chapter 18 3.1 Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research
Chapter 19 3.2 Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and Political Participation of Asian Pacific Immigrants
Chapter 20 The Asian American Movement and Beyond: 1960 to Present
Chapter 21 3.3 The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s
Chapter 22 3.4 Serve the People: An Exploration of the Asian American Movement
Chapter 23 Transnational Politics and Identities
Chapter 24 3.5 New Immigrants, New Forms of Transnational Community: Post -1965 Indian Migrations
Chapter 25 Asian Pacific American Voting Behavior
Chapter 26 3.6 Ethnicity and Political Adaptation: Comparing Filipinos, Koreans, and the Vietnamese in Southern California
Chapter 27 3.7 Gender and Political Involvement among Chinese Americans in Southern California
Chapter 28 Asian Pacific American Non-Voting Behavior
Chapter 29 3.8 Beyond "Politics by Other Means?": Empowerment Strategies for Los Angeles' Asian Pacific Community
Chapter 30 Prospects for Pan-Ethnicity: Coalition or Competition?
Chapter 31 3.9 Asian Pacific Americans and the Pan-ethnic Question
Chapter 32 Politics, Media, and Racial Profiling
Chapter 33 3.10 The Backdoor and the Backlash: Campaign Finance and the Politicization of Chinese Americans
Chapter 34 3.11 Race, Class, Citizenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 Campaign Finance Scandal
Chapter 35 3.12 Profiling Principle: The Prosecution of Wen Ho Lee and the Defense of Asian Americans
Chapter 36 3.13 Wen Ho Lee and the Consequences of Enduring Asian American Stereotypes
Chapter 37 Elected Leadership
Chapter 38 3.14 Campaigns, Elections, and Elected Officials
Chapter 39 3.15 Transcending the Bamboo and Glass Ceilings-Defining the Trajectory to Empower Asian Pacific American Women in Politics
Chapter 40 3.16 Remarks at the 10th Annual Conference of the Committee of 100
Chapter 41 3.17 The One Hundred Year Journey: From Houseboy to the Governor's Office
Chapter 42 3.18 Remarks at the University of Rochester Annual Meliora Weekend
Chapter 43 3.19 My Story: Being American Means Setting Expectations High
Part 44 IV Contemporary Public Policy Issues in the New Millennium
Chapter 45 Introduction
Chapter 46 Affirmative Action
Chapter 47 4.1 The Affirmative Action Divide
Chapter 48 Japanese American Redress and Reparations
Chapter 49 4.2 Japanese American Redress: Proper Alignment Model
Chapter 50 Labor Organizing
Chapter 51 4.3 Building an Asian Pacific Labor Alliance: A New Chapter in Our History
Chapter 53 Urban Riots: A Case Study of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
Chapter 54 4.4 America's First Multiethnic "Riots"
Chapter 55 Political Redistricting
Chapter 56 4.5 Asian Pacific Americans and Redistricting Challenges in 2001

Product details

Published Dec 04 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 496
ISBN 9780742518506
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 254 x 177 mm
Series Spectrum Series: Race and Ethnicity in National and Global Politics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Don T. Nakanishi

Anthology Editor

James S. Lai

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Harold Brackman

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Edward T. Chang

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Elaine L. Chao

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Steven P. Erie

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Kim Geron

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Bill Ong Hing

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Thomas P. Kim

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Taeku Lee

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Pei-te Lien

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Gary Locke

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Lee A. Makela

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Glenn Omatsu

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Elena Ong

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Paul M. Ong

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Leland T. Saito

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Sandhya Shukla

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Okiyoshi Takeda

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L Ling-chi Wang

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Janelle S. Wong

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Kent Wong

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David Wu

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Frank H. Wu

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