Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students, who formed crucial alliances based on their shared religious affiliations and experiences of discrimination.
Histories of civil rights movements in America generally place little or no emphasis on the activism of Asian Americans. Yet, as this fascinating new study reveals, there is a long and distinctive legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students, who formed crucial alliances based on their shared religious affiliations and experiences of discrimination.
STEPHANIE HINNERSHITZ is an assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.
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Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 “Western People Are Not All Angels”: Encountering Racism on the West Coast 2 A Problem by Any Other Name: Christian Student Associations, the “Second-Generation Problem,” and West Coast Racism 3 “We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice”: Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights 4 “A Sweet-and-Sour World”: The Second Sino-Japanese War, Christian Citizenship, and Equality 5 Christian Citizenship and Japanese American Incarceration during World War II 6 Christian Social Action in the Postwar Era Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 “Western People Are Not All Angels”: Encountering Racism on the West Coast 2 A Problem by Any Other Name: Christian Student Associations, the “Second-Generation Problem,” and West Coast Racism 3 “We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice”: Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights 4 “A Sweet-and-Sour World”: The Second Sino-Japanese War, Christian Citizenship, and Equality 5 Christian Citizenship and Japanese American Incarceration during World War II 6 Christian Social Action in the Postwar Era Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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