Rethinking the Asian American Movement

Maeda, Daryl Joji

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“…The term Asian American 1 was coined by activists Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee in 1968 when they co-founded the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) at the University of California, Berkeley. The AAPA was a diverse organization composed of multiethnic Asians from a variety of geographical, socioeconomic, class, and immigrant backgrounds united by antiracist and anti-imperialist politics (Author, in press;Maeda, 2012). Despite these origins, Asian American is no longer widely used as a political-racial identifier due to several recent trends that have altered its meaning (Philip, 2014), including the increasing ethnic diversity of Asian Americans, perceptions of the model minority stereotype (Park, 2008), and census use as a racial category.…”

Section: Defining Asian Americanmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Margins to Center: Developing Cultural Citizenship Education Through the Teaching of Asian American History

Rodríguez

2018

Theory & Research in Social Education

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Citizenship education is considered a primary purpose for social studies education. However, in elementary classrooms, it is often limited to the memorization of mainstream civic knowledge and learning about a handful of American heroes. This qualitative study of three Asian American educators uses Asian Critical Race Theory to explore how the teachers drew from their own cultural and linguistic experiences to inform pedagogies of cultural citizenship education that interrogated what it means to be a citizen. By (re)defining the terms Asian American and American (citizen), the teachers enacted cultural citizenship education through the use of counternarratives and children's literature that disrupted normative conceptualizations of citizen. Their work demonstrates how educators can present more inclusive depictions of civic identity, membership, and agency to young learners.

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Section: Defining Asian Americanmentioning

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From Margins to Center: Developing Cultural Citizenship Education Through the Teaching of Asian American History

Rodríguez

2018

Theory & Research in Social Education

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“…1. For an excellent historical account of the origins of the Asian American studies movement see Daryl Maeda's (2011). 2.…”

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Anti-Asian racism, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19

2020

Japan Forum

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This essay charts the professional and personal reflections of Professor Jennifer Ho, president of the Association for Asian American studies and critical race scholar about the rise of anti-Asian racism with the advent of COVID-19. Professor Ho also discusses the intersections between anti-Asian and anti-Black racism, providing historical context for how both are in service to white supremacy and how understanding these shared roots can create a common cause for anti-racism work for all.

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“…The Asian American panethnic movement emerged in college settings and local communities where activists had a history of organizing for Black power and women's rights. Students bonded through their racialized experiences and their solidarity with Asians abroad whose lives were shaped by U.S. imperialism (Maeda 2009(Maeda , 2012. They lobbied for ethnic studies programs and protested the Vietnam War.…”

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“…The number of articles for Asian magazines declined in the second half of the decade because Gidra ended production in April 1974. was gaining traction in the American imagination (see Wu 2013), and looked to the black and American Indian nationalist movements to which they had ties, as well as liberation movements in Asia and Africa, and made issues of racism, subjugation, and oppression central within their view of panethnicity. At the same time, new panethnic grassroots organizations were born from existing radical nationalist organizations, and ethnicspecific organizations took on panethnic approaches, as they came to understand the plight of Asian Americans as tied to U.S. racism and imperialism (Maeda 2012). Instead of building ties with mainstream institutions and elites, panethnic leaders drew upon the ideologies and practices of radical political groups and created an Asian American identity to combat racial inequality.…”

Section: The Labels Of Asian and Hispanic And The Crystallization Of mentioning

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Postcolonialism, Racial Political Fields, and Panethnicity: A Comparison of Early “Asian American” and “Hispanic” Movements

Mora

Okamoto

2020

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Recent work has called for sociologists to incorporate postcolonial theory into their toolkits to better understand the mechanics of race in the United States. The authors answer this call by showing how postcolonial and field theories can be bridged to explain how movements of the 1970s developed distinct visions of panethnicity. Drawing on published case studies, as well as a unique data set of pioneering “Asian American” and “Hispanic” movement magazines from the 1970s, the authors systematically compare how community leaders framed panethnic identities before they became widely institutionalized. The authors show that although Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans could have developed a panethnic narrative centered on American imperialism, it was Asian Americans who constructed a postcolonial panethnic politics. In contrast, “Hispanic” stakeholders of the 1970s framed panethnicity more conservatively and at times patriotically. The authors contend that the different visions of panethnicity reflect the distinct colonial and imperial history of Asians and Hispanics in the United States as well as the position of Asian American and Hispanic panethnic leaders within and across the racial fields of the 1970s. This study suggests that panethnicity as a mobilizing identity narrative is politically flexible and amenable to different visions of racial equality. Moreover, the authors show how postcolonialism and field theory can be further synthesized to advance the study of panethnicity.

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Rethinking the Asian American Movement

Cited by 86 publications

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From Margins to Center: Developing Cultural Citizenship Education Through the Teaching of Asian American History

From Margins to Center: Developing Cultural Citizenship Education Through the Teaching of Asian American History

Anti-Asian racism, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19

Postcolonialism, Racial Political Fields, and Panethnicity: A Comparison of Early “Asian American” and “Hispanic” Movements

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