Word: asian-americans
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...from that mythical state of California--a place whose name can be loosely translated as "land of earthquakes and elective cosmetic surgery." Across the hall from us lived a brilliant mathematician from Ohio and a talented tenor from West Virginia. (Our friend from West Virginia was one of four Asian-American residents of his county--the other three being his father, his mother and his older sister...
While clubs like the Asian American Association (AAA) attempt to tie Asian-American students together under a banner of political activism, more nationally-specific groups like the Chinese Students Association (CSA), the Taiwanese Cultural Society (TCS) and the Korean Students Association (KSA) sacrifice potentially controversial politics for a comfortable social atmosphere...
Founded in 1976 with an agenda of social action, AAA has seen several of its steering committee members go on to prominent positions in Asian-American political life...
...vitally important. Just as blacks had appropriated formerly derogatory terms--from "Negro" to "black" itself--as consciously chosen emblems of racial pride and identity, Chin tried to turn the racist label of "Chinaman" into one Chinese-Americans could claim as their own. Instead, hyphenation carried the day. But "Asian-American" only replicates Chin's dilemma: for it emphasizes the duality that plagues conceptions of Asian-American identity. The theme of most popular Asian-American literature has been the conflict of cultures--the alleged impossibility of reconciling Eastern and Western values, the stories of children caught between their parents' "Asian" values...
...part of a larger multicultural strategy, whereby blacks seek to place themselves within an America made up of many different cultural groups. But the cultural dualities that have confronted Asian-Americans should demonstrate the dangers of identifying with the "homeland." And perhaps blacks should be wary of giving up the cultural leverage that their unique, hard-won identity in American culture gives them. It is that leverage that Asian-American activists have sought and continue to seek, often by borrowing the tactics of black leaders. If the reply is that the Asian-American and black experiences have been profoundly different...