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Article: Heterogeneity.(Asian American identity)
- Article from:
- Asian American Policy Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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"While Asians share common interests as victims of white racism, their union is merely a pragmatic alliance of different nationalities, languages, cultures, and religions," writes Asian American Studies Professor Peter Kwong. He asserts that the Asian American consciousness is a "reactive one" that formed around the 1960s in response to the advent of the civil-rights movement (Kwong 1995). This question of the salience of an Asian American identity is especially relevant today as our government structure increasingly moves away from one of hierarchical, bureaucratic organizations acting alone to flat, networked relationships among individual actors. The shift to a ...