Chains of Babylon by Daryl J. Maeda PAPERBACK 9780816648917

Name: Chains of Babylon by Daryl J. Maeda PAPERBACK 9780816648917
Brand: University of Minnesota Press

University of Minnesota Press

In Chains of Babylon, Daryl J. Maeda presents a cultural history of Asian American activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, showing how the movement created the category of \""Asian American\"" to join Asians of many ethnicities in racial solidarity. Drawing on the Black Power and antiwar movements, Asian American radicals argued that all Asians in the United States should resist assimilation and band together to oppose racism within the country and imperialism abroad.\nAs revealed in Maeda's in-depth work, the Asian American movement contended that people of all Asian ethnicities in the United States shared a common relationship to oppression and exploitation with each other and with other nonwhite peoples. In the early stages of the civil rights era, the possibility of assimilation was\n\nChains of Babylon\nThe Rise of Asian America\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the p;