Asian American Politics

Don T. Nakanishi is director and professor of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. James S. Lai is assistant professor of political science and ethnic studies at Santa Clara University.

It [the book] should be in all libraries concerned with diversity and Asian politics in the U.S. Essential. All levels.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Introduction: Understanding Asian American PoliticsPart 3 I Historical Forms of Civic Engagement and Protest: Selected United States Supreme Court CasesChapter 4 IntroductionChapter 5 Historical Struggles for Equal Protection RightsChapter 6 1.1 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886)Chapter 7 1.2 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)Chapter 8 Historical Struggles for Naturalization RightsChapter 9 Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922)Chapter 10 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923)Part 11 II The Impact of Immigration Laws on Asian AmericaChapter 12 IntroductionChapter 13 2.1 Immigration Act of 1924Chapter 14 2.2 Making and Remaking Asian America: Immigration PolicyPart 15 III The Period of Political Incorporation (1965 to Present)Chapter 16 IntroductionChapter 17 Political Research and Demographic TrendsChapter 18 3.1 Asian American Politics: An Agenda for ResearchChapter 19 3.2 Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and Political Participation of Asian Pacific ImmigrantsChapter 20 The Asian American Movement and Beyond: 1960 to PresentChapter 21 3.3 The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990sChapter 22 3.4 Serve the People: An Exploration of the Asian American MovementChapter 23 Transnational Politics and IdentitiesChapter 24 3.5 New Immigrants, New Forms of Transnational Community: Post -1965 Indian MigrationsChapter 25 Asian Pacific American Voting BehaviorChapter 26 3.6 Ethnicity and Political Adaptation: Comparing Filipinos, Koreans, and the Vietnamese in Southern CaliforniaChapter 27 3.7 Gender and Political Involvement among Chinese Americans in Southern CaliforniaChapter 28 Asian Pacific American Non-Voting BehaviorChapter 29 3.8 Beyond "Politics by Other Means?": Empowerment Strategies for Los Angeles' Asian Pacific CommunityChapter 30 Prospects for Pan-Ethnicity: Coalition or Competition?Chapter 31 3.9 Asian Pacific Americans and the Pan-ethnic QuestionChapter 32 Politics, Media, and Racial ProfilingChapter 33 3.10 The Backdoor and the Backlash: Campaign Finance and the Politicization of Chinese AmericansChapter 34 3.11 Race, Class, Citizenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 Campaign Finance ScandalChapter 35 3.12 Profiling Principle: The Prosecution of Wen Ho Lee and the Defense of Asian AmericansChapter 36 3.13 Wen Ho Lee and the Consequences of Enduring Asian American StereotypesChapter 37 Elected LeadershipChapter 38 3.14 Campaigns, Elections, and Elected OfficialsChapter 39 3.15 Transcending the Bamboo and Glass Ceilings—Defining the Trajectory to Empower Asian Pacific American Women in PoliticsChapter 40 3.16 Remarks at the 10th Annual Conference of the Committee of 100Chapter 41 3.17 The One Hundred Year Journey: From Houseboy to the Governor's OfficeChapter 42 3.18 Remarks at the University of Rochester Annual Meliora WeekendChapter 43 3.19 My Story: Being American Means Setting Expectations HighPart 44 IV Contemporary Public Policy Issues in the New MillenniumChapter 45 IntroductionChapter 46 Affirmative ActionChapter 47 4.1 The Affirmative Action DivideChapter 48 Japanese American Redress and ReparationsChapter 49 4.2 Japanese American Redress: Proper Alignment ModelChapter 50 Labor OrganizingChapter 51 4.3 Building an Asian Pacific Labor Alliance: A New Chapter in Our HistoryChapter 53 Urban Riots: A Case Study of the 1992 Los Angeles UprisingChapter 54 4.4 America's First Multiethnic "Riots"Chapter 55 Political RedistrictingChapter 56 4.5 Asian Pacific Americans and Redistricting Challenges in 2001