Format:
Online-Ressource (230 p.)
ISBN:
9780813524634
Content:
In Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience, Angelo N. Ancheta demonstrates how United States civil rights laws have been framed by a black-white model of race that typically ignores the experiences of other groups, including Asian Americans. When racial discourse is limited to antagonisms between black and white, Asian Americans often find themselves in a racial limbo, marginalized or unrecognized as full participants. Ancheta examines legal and social theories of racial discrimination, ethnic differences in the Asian American population, nativism, citizenship, language, school desegre
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; List of Tables; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; A Note on Terms; Introduction: Neither Black nor White; Chapter 1: Legacies of Discrimination; Chapter 2: Discrimination and Antidiscrimination Law; Chapter 3: Looking Like the Enemy; Chapter 4: Race, Immigration, and Citizenship; Chapter 5: Language and Legal Conformity; Chapter 6: Race and Identity; Chapter 7: Law and Racial Hierarchy; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Table of Cases Cited in the Text; Index; About the Author;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813540078
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813539782
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience : Revised Edition
Language:
English
Keywords:
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