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846741
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Maeda, Daryl J.
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Chains of Babylon : : the rise of Asian America /\ Daryl J. Maeda.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2009.
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Critical American studies series
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1 online resource (xviii, 203 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816648905
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: 0816648913
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: 081667065X
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: 9780816648900
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: 9780816648917
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: 9780816670659
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9780816648900
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9780816648917
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index.
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| Contents
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Before Asian America -- "Down with Hayakawa!" : assimilation vs. third world solidarity at San Francisco State College -- Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen : constructing Asian American identity through performing blackness -- "Are we not also Asians?" : building solidarity through opposition to the Viet Nam war -- Performing radical culture : a grain of sand and the language of liberty -- Conclusion : fighting for the heart of Asian America.
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In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, 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 S.
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Third World Liberation Front-- History.
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Third World Liberation Front.
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African Americans-- Relations with Asian Americans.
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Asian Americans-- Ethnic identity.
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Asian Americans-- Politics and government-- 20th century.
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Asian Americans-- Social conditions-- 20th century.
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Political activists-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Social movements-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975-- Protest movements-- United States.
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African Americans-- Relations with Asian Americans.
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Asian Americans-- Ethnic identity.
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Asian Americans-- Politics and government.
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Asian Americans-- Social conditions.
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Political activists.
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Protest movements.
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Race relations.
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Social conditions
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Social movements.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- Asian American Studies.
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United States, Race relations, History, 20th century.
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United States, Social conditions, 20th century.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.895/073
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E184.A75M34 2009eb
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