A narrative history of the movement that turned -Orientals- into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as -Orientals.- Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities into a political identity, the history of how--and why--the double consciousness of Asian America came to be. At the same time, Karen Ishizuka's vivid narrative reveals the personal epiphanies and...
A narrative history of the movement that turned -Orientals- into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there we...