ASAMST 20AC Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Asian American Political Alliance, Ngo Dinh Diem, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Asian American Studies Program
• Course: ASAMST 20AC
• Professor: Dong Harvey

Document Summary

Basis for solidarity: racism, cultural oppression, colonialism abroad and internal colonialism within. Fbi director, j. edgar hoover directive to: expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, neutralize, or otherwise eliminate the activities of these movements and their leaders. Bay area asian coalition against the war (baacaw) The cooperative- a viable alternative for garment factory workers. Phases of activism: coming together, campus organizing. Identity, war, racism and politics: community- grassroots organizing phase. Focus on serve the people programs: decline. Law: support our law enforcement and safe neighborhoods act . Requires police to determine immigration status of person arrested or detained when there is. Reasonable suspicion they are not in us legally. Encourage racial profiling vs latinos, asian americans and other presumed to be foreign. Authorize police to demand paper proving citizenship or immigration status. Arbitrary based on appearance, accept, 24 other states following. Advocates of the ethnic solidarity instead of being individuals.