Chains of Babylon : the rise of Asian America

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Label

Chains of Babylon : the rise of Asian America

Title remainder

the rise of Asian America

Statement of responsibility

Daryl J. Maeda

Creator

• Maeda, Daryl J

Subject

• Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
• Asian Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Asian Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Political activists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Third World Liberation Front -- History
• United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
• African Americans -- Relations with Asian Americans

Language

eng

Summary

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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Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

305.895/073

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.A75

LC item number

M34 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography

Series statement

Critical American studies series