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Asian Americans on War & Peace

Edited by Russell C. Leong and Don T. Nakanishi, 2002.

244 pages, 41 photographs.

Paperback Edition - $8.00 (SPECIAL LIMITED PRICING)
ISBN: 093405236-0

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
War and Peace: When Past and Future Became the Now Russell C. Leong and Don T. Nakanishi

I. Worlds of Crisis

Oh, Say, Can You See? Post September 11 Helen Zia
Notes from a New York Diary Jessica Hagedorn
Existing at the Center, Watching from the Edges Roshni Rustomji-Kerns
War against the Planet Vijay Prashad
Nothing to Write Home About Amitava Kumar
Today: September 11, 2001 Russell C. Leong

I. Civil Liberties and Internment

Thinking Through Internment: 12/7 and 9/11 Jerry Kang
The Loaded Weapon by Eric K. Yamamoto and Susan Kiyomi Serrano
Pearl Harbor Revisited Frank Chin
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Moustafa Bayoumi
What Does Danger Look Like? Stephen Lee
When Mothers Talk Janice Mirikitani
Why Children Did Not Knock at My Door on Halloween This Year Ifti Nasim

III. Geopolitics

Colonialism, Globalization and Culture: Reflections on September 11th Arif Dirlik
Coming Full Circle: North American Labor History Conference Wayne State University, October 19, 2001 Grace Lee Boggs
Terrorism as a Way of Life Vinay Lal
Civilization and Dissent David Palumbo-Liu

IV. Peace

Why Does a Pediatrician Worry about Nuclear Weapons? James N. Yamazaki
The Hip-Hop Generation Can Call For Peace Jeff Chang
A Merciful End: A Call to Humanity Angela E. Oh
Stop the Bombing, Stop the War Michael F. Yamamoto
Asian Americans and the Peace Imperative Mari J. Matsuda
A Chronology of the "War on Terror" and Domestic Hate Crimes Stephen Lee

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