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With different histories, cultures, languages, and identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid 1960s, however, these different Asian American groups have come together to promote and protect both their individual and their united interests. The first book to examine this particular subject, Asian American Panethnicity is a highly detailed case study of how, and with what success, diverse national-origin groups can come together as a new, enlarged panethnic group.

Yen Le Espiritu explores the construction of large-scale affiliations, in which previously unrelated groups submerge their differences and assume a common identity. Making use of extensive interviews and statistical data, she examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups, including those, like the Vietnamese and Cambodians, which are less powerful and prominent than the Chinese and Japanese. By citing specific examples—educational discrimination, legal redress, anti-Asian violence, the development of Asian American Studies programs, social services, and affirmative action—the author demonstrates how Asian Americans came to understand that only by cooperating with each other would they succeed in fighting the racism they all faced.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Tables and Figures
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  1. Preface
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  1. 1. Ethnicity and Panethnicity
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  1. 2. Coming Together: The Asian American Movement
  2. pp. 19-52
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  1. 3. Electoral Politics
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  1. 4. The Politics of Social Service Funding
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  1. 5. Census Classification: The Politics of Ethnic Enumeration
  2. pp. 112-133
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  1. 6. Reactive Solidarity: Anti-Asian Violence
  2. pp. 134-160
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  1. 7. Pan-Asian American Ethnicity: Retrospect and Prospect
  2. pp. 161-176
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  1. Notes
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  1. References
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  1. Interviews
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  1. Index
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