Table of Contents

Contents Tables and Figures Preface 1. Ethnicity and Panethnicity 2. Coming Together: The Asian American Movement 3. Electoral Politics 4. The Politics of Social Service Funding 5. Census Classification: The Politics of Ethnic Enumeration 6. Reactive Solidarity: Anti-Asian Violence 7. Pan-Asian American Ethnicity: Retrospect and Prospect Notes References Interviews Index

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A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage

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A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage

About the Author

Yen Le Espiritu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and is the author of Filipino American Lives (Temple).

Reviews

"Original and stimulating... [Espiritu's] study raises compelling questions about the existing literature on ethnicity and her findings open up new avenues for research and analysis." --Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of Racial Formation in the U.S. from the 1960s to the 1980s