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Serve the People : Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

Ishizuka, Karen L., author, Chang, Jeff, writer of foreword

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\"The 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.

• Publisher: Verso
• Subject: 1900-1999 / Asian Americans History 20th century. / Asian Americans Social conditions 20th century. / Asian Americans Political activity 20th century. / Asian Americans Politics and government 20th century. / Asian Americans. / Asian Americans Political activity. / Asian Americans Politics and government. / Asian Americans Social conditions. / Social conditions. / United States Social conditions 1960-1980. / United States.
• ISBN: 9781781688625, 1781688621

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
E184.A75 I84 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE