Asian Americans on War & Peace - Softcover

9780934052368: Asian Americans on War & Peace

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0934052360 ISBN 13: 9780934052368

Publisher: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2002

Cultural Writing. Nonfiction. Asian American Studies. ASIAN AMERICANS ON WAR AND PEACE is the first book to respond to the events of September 11, 2001 from Asian American perspectives, from the vantage point of those whose lives and communities have been forged by both war and peace. Together, twenty-four scholars, writers, activists and legal scholars reveal how Asians in America view the future of the planet in relation to the events of this last year and this last century, both in America and in the Middle East. Includes essays by Helen Zia, Jessica Hagedorn, Vijay Prashad, Amitava Kumar, Russell C. Leong, Jerry Kang, Frank Chin, Moustafa Bayoumi, Stephen Lee, Janice Mirikitani, Arif Dirlik, Grace Lee Boggs, and many others.

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About the Author:

Russell C. Leong is the editor of Amerasia Journal and Adjunct Professor of English at UCLA.

Don T. Nakanishi is Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Professor of Education and Asian American Studies.

These words are in effect, words written in the midst of crisis. Their words are alternatives to the rhetoric uttered by presidents and generals, politicians and pundits living in the East and in the West. Together, their voices reveal how Asians, Asian Americans, South Asians, Arabs, and others view the future of the planet in relation to the events of both yesterday and today. . . .

For the past thirty years, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center through its Press and its scholarly journal, Amerasia Journal, from which a number of these articles originated, has been at the forefront of shaping the critical dialogue around Asians in the Americas in relation to war and peace. We join activists, students, and scholars throughout the world who continue to question both the ongoing crisis of the American presence in the Middle East, and the concurrent crisis of civil liberties and democracy in the United States.

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