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Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects
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Asian Americans and Politics
Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects

Edited by Gordon H. Chang
2001, 425 pages, Paperback.



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Asian Americans have recently emerged as an increasingly important force in American politics. The number of Asian Pacific American officeholders has grown rapidly in the past two decades from just a handful: today more than 2,200 hold elected or appointed offices at the federal, state, and local levels. Asian American voices have been prominent in policy debates over such matters as education, race relations, and immigration reform. On a discordant note, a national controversy with racial overtones erupted in 1996-97 over alleged illegal Asian and Asian American campaign contributions and illicit influences on American politics. In 1999, another controversy arose over allegations that a Chinese American physicist had passed nuclear secrets to the Chinese government.

Yet little scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding the engagement of Asian Americans with American politics. This volume of fifteen essays is one of the first to take a broad-ranging look at the phenomenon. Its contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines-history, political science, sociology, and urban studies-and from the practical political realm. They discuss such topics as the historical relationship of Asians to American politics, the position of Asian Americans in America's legal and racial landscape, recent Asian American voting behavior and political opinion, politics and the evolving demographics of the Asian American population, current national controversies involving Asian Americans, conclusions drawn from regional and local case studies, and the future of Asian Americans in American politics.

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"The diversity of approaches and sharp insights by the contributors provide original and penetrating perspectives on Asian American politics. Its important new findings are innovative, provoking, and promise to be catalysts for further research."
-Franklin Ng, California State University, Fresno

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Background on Gordon H. Chang

Gordon H. Chang is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Stanford University. He is the author of Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945 (Stanford, 1997), and Friends and Enemies: The United States, China, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1972 (Stanford, 1990).

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