Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 21 - Contemporary Filipino American Writers and the Legacy of Imperialism

  • from Part IV - Canons
  • Edited by Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Min Hyoung Song, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
    Published online:
    05 December 2015
    Print publication:
    01 December 2015, pp 371-386

  • Summary

    Asian American participation in the Third World Liberation Front strike at San Francisco State College revealed the nascent Asian American movement's commitment to self-determination for Asian American communities and solidarity with other non-white groups in the United States. It was appropriate that the first large-scale Asian American actions took place at San Francisco State, which had been roiled in student activism throughout the early to middle 1960s. Opposition to the US war in Vietnam contributed greatly to the emergence and growth of the Asian American movement, which was deeply influenced by some segments of the mainstream antiwar movement. The liberation of women also proved to be an important and complex aspect of the Asian American movement's struggle. The social and political movements of the 1960s and 1970s created spaces in which multiethnic Asian American arts, culture and literature arose as a distinct body of works.