ISBN:
9780871546760
,
0871546760
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 245 pages
,
illustrations
,
23 cm
DDC:
305.895/073
Keywords:
Asian Americans
;
Ethnicity
;
Group identity
;
Asian Americans
;
Ethnicity
;
Group identity
;
United States
;
USA
;
Asiaten
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Soziale Identität
Abstract:
Ethnic boundary change and panethnicity -- The durability of ethnic boundaries in the pre-1968 era -- The emergence of organizational panethnicity -- The ethnic-panethnic dynamics of collective action -- Ethnic organizations and the flexibility of group boundaries -- Panethnicity and beyond.
Abstract:
In Redefining Race, sociologist Dina G. Okamoto traces the complex evolution of this racial designation to show how the use of "Asian American" as a panethnic label and identity has been a deliberate social achievement negotiated by members of this group themselves, rather than an organic and inevitable process. Drawing on original research and a series of interviews, Okamoto investigates how different Asian ethnic groups in the U.S. were able to create a collective identity in the wake of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-232) and index
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