Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties

The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation gay rights Chicano power and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political identity--and along the way created a racial group out of marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as Orientals.<br>The Asian American Movement was an unabashedly radical social movement sprung from campuses and city ghettoes and allied with Third World freedom struggles and the anti-Vietnam War movement seen as a racist intervention in Asia. It also introduced to mainstream America a generation of now internationally famous artists writers and musicians like novelist Maxine Hong Kingston.<br>Karen Ishizuka's definitive history is based on years of research and more than 120 extensive interviews with movement leaders and participants. It's written in a vivid narrative style and illustrated with many striking images from guerrilla movement publications. <i>Serve the People</i> is a book that fills out the full story of the Long Sixties.