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Race, religion, and civil rights : Asian students on the West Coast, 1900-1968 / Stephanie Hinnershitz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian American studies todayPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 268 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813571805
  • 0813571804
  • 9780813575360
  • 0813575362
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race, religion, and civil rightsDDC classification:
  • 323.1195/0730790904 23
LOC classification:
  • F855.2.A75 H56 2015eb
  • F855.2.A75 H56 2015
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Western People Are Not All Angels": Encountering Racism on the West Coast -- 2. A Problem by Any Other Name: Christian Student Associations, the "Second-Generation Problem," and West Coast Racism -- 3. "We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice": Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights -- 4. "A Sweet-and- Sour World": The Second Sino-Japanese War, Christian Citizenship, and Equality -- 5. Christian Citizenship and Japanese American Incarceration during World War II -- 6. Christian Social Action in the Postwar Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Stephanie Hinnershitz reveals the unsung legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students, who formed crucial alliances based on their shared religious affiliations and experiences of discrimination. Using archival sources that bring forth these students' authentic, passionate voices, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights is a testament to the powerful ways they shaped the social, political, and cultural direction of civil rights movements throughout the West Coast, from Californian college campuses to Alaskan canneries.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1081475

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Stephanie Hinnershitz reveals the unsung legacy of civil rights activism among foreign and American-born Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino students, who formed crucial alliances based on their shared religious affiliations and experiences of discrimination. Using archival sources that bring forth these students' authentic, passionate voices, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights is a testament to the powerful ways they shaped the social, political, and cultural direction of civil rights movements throughout the West Coast, from Californian college campuses to Alaskan canneries.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Western People Are Not All Angels": Encountering Racism on the West Coast -- 2. A Problem by Any Other Name: Christian Student Associations, the "Second-Generation Problem," and West Coast Racism -- 3. "We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice": Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights -- 4. "A Sweet-and- Sour World": The Second Sino-Japanese War, Christian Citizenship, and Equality -- 5. Christian Citizenship and Japanese American Incarceration during World War II -- 6. Christian Social Action in the Postwar Era -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index