Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
Note: Electronic data is machine generated. May be incomplete or contain other coding.
Introduction: Understanding Asian American Politics 1
Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai
Part I Historical Forms of Civic Engagement and Protest:
Selected United States Supreme Court Cases
Introduction 19
Historical Struggles for Equal Protection Rights
1.1 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886) 23
1.2 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) 29
Historical Struggles for Naturalization Rights
1.3 Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922) 35
1.4 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923) 41
Part II The Impact of Immigration Laws on Asian America
Introduction 47
2.1 Immigration Act of 1924 51
Lee A. Makela
2.2 Making and Remaking Asian Pacific America: Immigration Policy 81
Bill Ong Hing
Part III The Period of Political Incorporation
(1965 to Present)
Introduction 89
Political Research and Demographic Trends
3.1 Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research 93
Don T Nakanishi
3.2 Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and
Political Participation of Asian Pacific Immigrants 113
Paul M. Ong and Don T Nakanishi
The Asian American Movement and Beyond: 1960 to Present
3.3 The 'Four Prisons' and the Movements of Liberation:
Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s 135
Glenn Omatsu
3.4 Serve the People: An Exploration of the Asian
American Movement 163
Kim Geron
Transnational Politics and Identities
3.5 New Immigrants, New Forms of Transnational Community:
Post-1965 Indian Migrations 181
Sandhya Shukla
Asian Pacific American Voting Behavior
3.6 Ethnicity and Political Adaptation: Comparing Filipinos,
Koreans, and the Vietnamese in Southern California 193
Pei-te Lien
3.7 Gender and Political Involvement among Chinese Americans
in Southern California 211
Janelle S. Wong
Asian Pacific American Non-Voting Behavior
3.8 Beyond "Politics by Other Means"? Empowerment Strategies
for Los Angeles' Asian Pacific Community 231
Harold Brackman and Steven P. Erie
Prospects for Pan-Ethnicity: Coalition or Competition?
3.9 Asian Pacific Americans and the Pan-Ethnic Question 247
James S. Lai
Politics, Media, and Racial Profiling
3.10 The Backdoor and the Backlash: Campaign Finance and the
Politicization of Chinese Americans 261
Taeku Lee
3.11 Race, Class, Citzenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian
Americans and the 1996 Campaign Finance Scandal 281
L. Ling-chi Wang
3.12 Profiling Principle: The Prosecution of Wen Ho Lee and the
Defense of Asian Americans 297
Frank H. Wu
3.13 Wen Ho Lee and the Consequences of Enduring Asian
American Stereotypes 303
Spencer K. Turnbull
Elected Leadership
3.14 Campaigns, Elections, and Elected Officials 317
James S. Lai, Wendy K. Tam-Cho, Thomas P. Kim, and
Okiyoshi Takeda
3.15 Transcending the Bamboo and Glass Ceilings:
Defining the Trajectory to Empower Asian Pacific Islander
American Women in Politics 331
Elena Ong
3.16 Remarks at the Tenth Annual Conference of the
Committee of 100 355
Elaine L. Chao
3.17 The One-Hundred Year Journey: From Houseboy to the
Governor's Office 359
Gary Locke
3.18 Remarks at the University of Rochester Annual
Meliora Weekend 365
Norman Y Mineta
3.19 My Story: Being American Means Setting Expectations High 369
David Wu
Part IV Contemporary Public Policy Issues in the New Millennium
Introduction 373
Affirmative Action
4.1 The Affirmative Action Divide 377
Paul M. Ong
Japanese American Redress and Reparations
4.2 Japanese American Redress: The Proper Alignment Model 407
Harry H. L. Kitano and Mitchell T Maki
Labor Organizing
4.3 Building an Asian Pacific Labor Alliance:
A New Chapter in Our History 421
Kent Wong
Urban Riots: A Case Study of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising
4.4 America's First Multiethnic 'Riots.' 431
Edward T Chang
Political Redistricting
4.5 Asian Pacific Americans and Redistricting Challenges in 2001 441
Leland T Saito