East Asian Americans and Political Participation - A Reference Handbook

This expert handbook explores the various means of political participation of East Asian Americans in the United States. Filling a gap in the literature on American minority politics, East Asian Americans and Political Participation offers the first systematic, thorough coverage of the impact of Chinese American, Korean American, and Japanese American individuals and groups on U.S. political process. Focusing on the post-World War II era-when rapidly growing East Asian American communities became more politically involved-the book explores the full range of formal and informal political actions, including protest politics, social movements and interest groups, electoral politics, and political office holding at every level. These general discussions are enhanced with evocative case studies on such important topics as Asian American participation in the civil rights movement, the campaign after the murder of Vincent Chin, the Redress movement, the Korean campaign following the Los Angeles riots, the promotion of the motherland, and more.

Info autore

Tsung Chi is associate professor of politics at Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tsung Chi, Chi Tsung
• Con la collaborazione di: Raymond A. Smith (Editore)
• Editore: Abc Clio Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 7 a 17 anni
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.04.2005
• EAN: 9781576072905
• ISBN: 978-1-57607-290-5
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: Political Participation in Ame; Political Participation in America
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Politics and government, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies