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The State of Asian Pacific America: Transforming Race Relations

2000 | Volume IV


Editor: Paul M. Ong


LEAP Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute and UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Table of Contents


Preface by Don T. Nakanishi and J.D. Hokoyama 7
INTRODUCTION  
The Asian Pacific American Challenge to Race Relations by Paul M. Ong 13
PART I. RACIAL IDENTITIES  
"Who Are You Calling Asian?": Shifting Identity Claims, Racial Classifications, and the Census by Yen Le Espiritu and Michael Omi 43
Racial Attitudes and the Color Line(s) at the Close of the Twentieth Century by Taeku Lee 103
Fu Manchu Lives! Asian Pacific Americans as Permanent Aliens in American Culture by Robert Lee 159
PART II. RACIAL INTERACTIONS  
Residential Patterns of Asian Pacific Americans by Tarry Hum and Michela Zonta 191
From Vincent Chin to Joseph Ileto: Asian Pacific Americans and Hate Crime Policy by Karen Umemoto 243
Asian Pacific Americans and Human Rights/Relations Commissions by Pauline Agbayani-Siewert 279
PART III: NATIONAL RACE POLICIES  
The Affirmative Action Divide by Paul M. Ong 313
Asians and Race Relations in Britain by Shamit Saggar 363
Asians and Race Relations in Australia by Christine Inglis 395
PART IV: NEW POSSIBILITIES  
Multiracial Collaborations and Coalitions by Leland T. Saito and Edward J.W. Park 435
Reaching Toward our Higher Aspirations: The President's Initiative on Race by Angela Oh (Member, Advisory Board to the President's Initiative on Race) 475
Contributors 495