AAS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Norman Mineta, Spark Matsunaga, Bob Matsui
18 Dec 2015
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Changing patterns of aa political participation: post wwii: apathetic (hawaiian exception) 1960"s - mid 1970"s: politicization of aa. Mid 1970"s - 1980"s: involved in electoral politics. 1983 - dnc asian pacific caucus (apc) Rainbow coalition: a variant of the traditional democratic party strategy of building political power on a coalition of ethnic groups. Jackson"s campaign provided aa activists: an opportunity to work within the established political system, an experience of the electoral process first hand, inspiration to continue working in electoral politics. Daniel inouye: president pro tempore of the us senate (3rd in presidential succession) Elaine chao - secretary of labor (bush) Norman mineta - secretary of commerce, transportation. Prerequisites for political mobilization (ability to elect own people to office: inter-asian solidarity (panethnic consciousness and identity, development of candidates, voter registration: citizenship and naturalization (fa- highest, ja-lowest, fair districting (reapportionment): voting bloc. Barriers to aa political mobilization: inter and intra ethnic diversity: difficulty to speak of.
