AAST 200 Chapter 5: Keywords 5
9 Mar 2017
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Forms label for political assemblage (asian-american movement: connotations with movement involve flux, not stasis. Reflection of position as racial minority while fighting for free speech, anti-vn war sentiments, and rights for black voters. Racism against aa in us equated to vietnamese people in asia. Organized aa together to address discrimination and exploitation despite historical antipathy between aa of different ethnicities in the us, all asians share common relationship because of us" racism against. Asians: late 1960"s/early 1970"s: aa political alliance (aapa) (1968) and aa for. Aapa made by yuji ichioka at berkeley. Aaa made by kazu iijima and minn masuda (2 lil old ladies) United by conviction to fix us" wrongs (i. e. ; us discrimination against and exploitation of poc, genocide of asians abroad) These beliefs align with new left movement, but new left is white-dominated and didn"t take anti-asian racism as seriously.
