Asian Americans and politics : perspectives, experiences, prospects
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Asian Americans and politics : perspectives, experiences, prospects
Woodrow Wilson Center Press, c2001
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Asian Americans have quite recently emerged as an increasingly important force in American politics. In 1996, more than 300 Asian and Pacific Americans were elected to federal, state, and local offices; today, more than 2,000 hold appointive positions in government. Asian American voices have been prominent in policy debates over such matters as education, race relations, and immigration reform. On a more discordant note, a national controversy with racial overtones erupted in 1996-97 over alleged illegal Asian and Asian American campaign contributions and illicit foreign influences on American politics, and in 1999 another controversy arose over allegations that a Chinese American physicist had passed nuclear secrets to the Chinese government.
Yet little scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding the engagement of Asian Americans with American politics. This volume of fifteen essays is the first to take a broad-ranging look at the phenomenon. Its contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines-history, political science, sociology, and urban studies-and from the practical political realm. They discuss such topics as the historical relationship of Asians to American politics, the position of Asian Americans in America's legal and racial landscape, recent Asian American voting behavior and political opinion, politics and the evolving demographics of the Asian American population, current national controversies involving Asian Americans, conclusions drawn from regional and local case studies, and the future of Asian Americans in American politics.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS Chang Gordon H. PART ONE 1. Chang Gordon H. 2. Kim Claire Jean 3. Gotanda Neil T. 4. Nakanishi Don T. PART TWO 5. Tam Cho Wendy K. Cain Bruce E. 6. Ong Paul M. Lee David E. 7. Lien Pei-Te PART THREE 8. Chan Kenyon S. 9. Kiang Peter Nien-Chu 10. Khagram Sanjeev Desai Manish Varughese Jason 11. Park Edward J. W. PART FOUR 12. Wu Frank H. Youngberg Francey Lim 13. Yu Judy Yuan Grace T. 14. Watanabe Paul Y. 15. Saito Leland T.
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