Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

A narrative history of the movement that turned â€œOrientalsâ€ into Asian Americans

Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as â€œOrientals.â€ Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities into a political identity, the history of howâ€”and whyâ€”the double consciousness of Asian America came to be.

At the same time, Karen Ishizukaâ€™s vivid narrative reveals the personal epiphanies and intimate stories of insurgent movers and shakers and ground-level activists alike. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated with striking images from guerrilla movement publications, the book evokes the feeling of growing up alien in a society rendered in black and white, and recalls the intricate memories and meanings of the Asian American movement. Serve the People paints a panoramic landscape of a radical time, and is destined to become the definitive history of the making of Asian America.
Country USA
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-03-15
Format Kindle eBook

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