Asian Americans have quite recently emerged as an increasingly important force in American politics. This volume of 15 essays takes a broad-ranging look at the phenomenon.

They discuss such topics as the historical relationship of Asians to American politics, the position of Asian Americans in America s legal and racial landscape, recent Asian American voting behavior and political opinion, politics and the evolving demographics of the Asian American population, current national controversies involving Asian Americans, conclusions drawn from regional and local case studies, and the future of Asian Americans in American politics.

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Preface
Introduction Gordon H. Chang
Part I. Framing the Discussion: 1. Asian Americans and politics: some perspectives from history Gordon H. Chang
2. The racial triangulation of Asian Americans Claire Jean Kim
3. Citizenship nullification: the impossibility of Asian American politics Neil T. Gotanda
4. Beyond electoral politics: renewing a search for a paradigm of Asian Pacific American politics Don T. Nakanishi
Part II. Voting Behaviour: 5. Asian Americans as the median voters: an exploration of attitudes and voting patterns on ballot initiatives Wendy K. Tam Cho and Bruce E. Cain
6. changing of the guard? the emerging immigrant majority in Asian American politics Paul M. Ong and David E. Lee
7. Voting participation: race, gender, and the comparative status of Asian American women Pei-Te Lien
Part III. Emerging Political Identities: 8. US-born, immigrant, refugee, or indigenous status: public policy implications for Asian Pacific American families Kenyon S. Chan
9. Asian Pacific American youth: pathways for political participation Peter Nien-Chu Kiang
10. Seen, rich, but unheard? the politics of Asian Indians in the United States Sanjeev Khagrm, Mansh Desai and Jason Varughese
11. The impact of mainstream political mobilization on Asian American communities: the case of Korean Americans in Los Angeles, 1992-1998 Edward J. W. Park
Part IV. Toward the Future: 12. People from China crossing the river: Asian American political empowerment and foreign influence Frank H. Wu and Francey Lim Youngberg
13. Lessons learned from the 'Locke for Governor' campaign
14. Building on the indigenous base: the fund-raising controversy and the future of Asian American political participation Paul Y. Watanabe
15. Asian Americans and multiracial political coalitions: New York City's Chinatown and redistricting, 1990-1991 Leland T. Saito
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