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Synopsis
Cultural Writing. Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. ASIAN AMERICANS ON WAR AND PEACE is the first book to respond to the events of September 11, 2001 from Asian American perspectives, from the vantage point of those whose lives and communities have been forged by both war and peace. Together, twenty-four scholars, writers, activists and legal scholars reveal how Asians in America view the future of the planet in relation to the events of this last year and this last century, both in America and in the Middle East. Includes essays by Helen Zia, Jessica Hagedorn, Vijay Prashad, Amitava Kumar, Russell C. Leong, Jerry Kang, Frank Chin, Moustafa Bayoumi, Stephen Lee, Janice Mirikitani, Arif Dirlik, Grace Lee Boggs, and many others.
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About the Author
Russell C. Leong is the editor of Amerasia Journal and Adjunct Professor of English at UCLA.
Don T. Nakanishi is Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Professor of Education and Asian American Studies.
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These words are in effect, words written in the midst of crisis. Their words are alternatives to the rhetoric uttered by presidents and generals, politicians and pundits living in the East and in the West. Together, their voices reveal how Asians, Asian Americans, South Asians, Arabs, and others view the future of the planet in relation to the events of both yesterday and today. . . .
For the past thirty years, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center through its Press and its scholarly journal, Amerasia Journal, from which a number of these articles originated, has been at the forefront of shaping the critical dialogue around Asians in the Americas in relation to war and peace. We join activists, students, and scholars throughout the world who continue to question both the ongoing crisis of the American presence in the Middle East, and the concurrent crisis of civil liberties and democracy in the United States.
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- PublisherUCLA Asian American Studies Center Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0934052360
- ISBN 13 9780934052368
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages225
- EditorLeong Russell C., Nakanishi Don T.
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Paperback. Condition: very good. Red octavo; xiii, 224 p, b&w illus; 23 cm. Contents: War and peace: when past and future became the now / Russell C. Leong, Don T. Nakanishi -- i. Worlds of crisis -- Oh, say, can you see? Post September 11 / Helen Zia -- Notes from a New York diary / Jessica Hagedorn -- Existing at the center, watching from the edges / Roshni Rustomji-Kerns -- War against the planet / Vijay Prashad -- Nothing to write home about / Amitava Kumar -- Today: September 11, 2001 / Russell C. Leong -- ii. Civil liberties and internment -- Thinking through internment: 12/7 and 9/11 / Jerry Kang -- Loaded weapon / Eric K. Yamamoto, Susan Kiyomi Serrano -- Pearl Harbor revisited / Frank Chin -- How does it feel to be a problem? / Moustafa Bayoumi -- What does danger look like? / Stephen Lee -- When mothers talk / Janice Mirikitani -- Why children did not knock at my door on Halloween this year / Ifti Nasim -- iii. Geopolitics -- Colonialism, globalization and culture: reflections on September 11th / Arif Dirlik -- Coming full circle: North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 19, 2001 / Grace Lee Boggs -- Terrorism as a way of life / Vinay Lal -- Civilization and dissent / David Palumbo-Liu -- iv. Peace -- Why does a pediatrician worry about nuclear weapons? / James N. Yamazaki -- Hip-hop generation can call for peace / Jeff Chang -- Merciful end: a call to humanity / Angela E. Oh -- Stop the bombing, stop the war / Michael F. Yamamoto -- Asian Americans and the peace imperative / Mari J. Matsuda -- Chronology of the "war on terror" and domestic hate crimes / Stephen Lee. Asian Americans -- Politics; Civil rights. Barely worn folds of spine head & foot, barely rubbed corners, light soiling to rear cover, light crease to front cover, else very good+. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Seller Inventory # 81632
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