商品簡介
Chang (history, Stanford U.) provides the historical context for the complex position and experiences of Asian Americans in his introduction to this group of papers first presented at the spring 1998 "Asian Americans and Politics" conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. The remaining 14 papers, by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and academics in urban studies, consider the historical background to Asian voting rights, the tendency of Asians to be seen as median voters, the emerging immigrant majority in Asian American politics, voting participation of Asian American women, the politics of Asian Indians, the political mobilization of Korean Americans in Los Angeles in the 1990's, foreign influence on Chinese American voting, the lessons learned in the 1996 campaign of Washington State's Gary Locke, and redistricting of New York City's Chinatown. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
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)
