Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation(Contemporary Asian American Activism)

In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures requires collective action and reciprocal relationships that are nurtured over time and forged through cross-racial solidarity and intergenerational connections, leading to a range of on-the-ground experiences. Bringing together grassroots organizers and scholar-activists, Contemporary Asian American Activism presents lived experiences of the fight for transformative justice and offers lessons to ensure the longevity and sustainability of organizing. In the face of imperialism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and more, the contributors celebrate victories and assess failures, reflect on the trials of activist life, critically examine long-term movement building, and inspire continued mobilization for coming generations.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: Building an Archive of Asian American Organizing Praxis Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino  PART 1: INCARCERATIONS, DISPLACEMENTS, AND TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 1 Prison-to-Leadership Pipeline: Asian American Prisoner Activism Eddy Zheng  Chapter 2 Ho'opono Mamo and Restorative Practices: Reflections on Scholar Activism in Juvenile Justice Systems Change Karen Umemoto  Chapter 3 The Streets of SoMa: Building Community amid Displacement in San Francisco Angelica Cabande, with Katherine Nasol  PART 2: INTERNATIONALISM AND LOCAL STRUGGLES Chapter 4 Dismantling the "Undocumented Korean Box": Race, Education, and Undocumented Korean Immigrant Activism for Liberation Ga Young Chung  Chapter 5 Drivers on the Front Lines: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Neoliberalism, and Global Pandemic—An Interview with Javaid Tariq Diane C. Fujino  Chapter 6 BAYAN USA: Filipino Transnational Radical Activism in the United States in the Twenty-First Century Jessica Antonio  PART 3: POLITICAL EDUCATION AND RADICAL PEDAGOGY Chapter 7 Political Education as Revolutionary Praxis May C. Fu  Chapter 8 "Organizing Wherever Your Feet Land": Reconceptualizing Writing and Writing Instruction in the Legacy of Asian American Activism Katherine H. Lee  Chapter 9 How Does It Feel to Be on the Precipice? ChangeLab, A Racial Justice Experiment Soya Jung  PART 4: ON MOVEMENT BUILDING: SHAPED BY THE PAST, CREATING NEW FUTURES Chapter 10 On Movement Praxis in the Era of Trumpism Alex T. Tom  Chapter 11 "Pete Wilson Trying to See Us All Broke": Asian American Cross-Racial Student Activism in 1990s California Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, with Wayne Jopanda  Chapter 12 The Struggle to Abolish Environmental and Economic Racism: Asian Radical Imagining from the Homeland to the Front Line Pam Tau Lee  Epilogue: Radical Love for a New Generation Robyn Magalit Rodriguez  List of Contributors  Index

About the Author :
Diane C. Fujino is professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis.