ASIA AM 20 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Asian American Movement, San Francisco State University, Third World Liberation Front

• School: UCLA
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: ASIA AM 20
• Professor: Welty, L.

Document Summary

Demanded an education more relevant and accessible to their communities. Affected popular ideology and social relations; formation of mass organizations and activists. Strike was a microcosm: rede nition of education, which linked to rede nition of. Activists believed education should be relevant and serve needs of communities. Conclusions for the asian american movement: asian american students played a signi cant role in student movements of 60s; struggle was situated in an urban, multiethnic, liberal, working-class city. Self-determination aka taking control over one"s life; power to the people. The four prisons and the movements of liberation (asian american activism from the. First: prisons of history and geography; 2nd: history; 3rd: society"s social and class structure; 4th: the self. Movements in the 1960s were struggles for liberation from many prisons. Struggles that confronted historical forces of racism, poverty, war; that generated new ideologies based on third world leaders; that transformed the lives of ordinary people.