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Introduction: Understanding Asian American Politics 1

Part I Historical Forms of Civic Engagement and Protest: Selected United States Supreme Court Cases 19

Introduction 19

Historical Struggles for Equal Protection Rights 19

1.1 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886) 23

1.2 Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944) 29

Historical Struggles for Naturalization Rights 35

1.3 Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922) 35

1.4 United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923) 41

Part II The Impact of Immigration Laws on Asian America 47

Introduction 47

2.1 Immigration Act of 1924 51

2.2 Making and Remaking Asian Pacific America: Immigration Policy 81

Part III The Period of Political Incorporation (1965 to Present) 89

Introduction 89

Political Research and Demographic Trends 93

3.1 Asian American Politics: An Agenda for Research 93

3.2 Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and Political Participation of Asian Pacific Immigrants 113

The Asian American Movement and Beyond: 1960 to Present 135

3.3 The ‘Four Prisons’ and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s 135

3.4 Serve the People: An Exploration of the Asian American Movement 163

Transnational Politics and Identities 181

3.5 New Immigrants, New Forms of Transnational Community: Post-1965 Indian Migrations 181

Asian Pacific American Voting Behavior 193

3.6 Ethnicity and Political Adaptation: Comparing Filipinos, Koreans, and the Vietnamese in Southern California 193

3.7 Gender and Political Involvement among Chinese Americans in Southern California 211

Asian Pacific American Non-Voting Behavior 231

3.8 Beyond “Politics by Other Means”? Empowerment Strategies for Los Angeles’ Asian Pacific Community 231

Prospects for Pan-Ethnicity: Coalition or Competition? 247

3.9 Asian Pacific Americans and the Pan-Ethnic Question 247

Politics, Media, and Racial Profiling 261

3.10 The Backdoor and the Backlash: Campaign Finance and the Politicization of Chinese Americans 261

3.11 Race, Class, Citzenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 Campaign Finance Scandal 281

3.12 Profiling Principle: The Prosecution of Wen Ho Lee and the Defense of Asian Americans 297

3.13 Wen Ho Lee and the Consequences of Enduring Asian American Stereotypes 303

Elected Leadership 317

3.14 Campaigns, Elections, and Elected Officials 317

3.15 Transcending the Bamboo and Glass Ceilings: Defining the Trajectory to Empower Asian Pacific Islander American Women in Politics 331

3.16 Remarks at the Tenth Annual Conference of the Committee of 100 355

3.17 The One-Hundred Year Journey: From Houseboy to the Governor’s Office 359

3.18 Remarks at the University of Rochester Annual Meliora Weekend 365

3.19 My Story: Being American Means Setting Expectations High 369

Part IV Contemporary Public Policy Issues in the New Millennium 373

Introduction 373

Affirmative Action 377

4.1 The Affirmative Action Divide 377

Japanese American Redress and Reparations 407

4.2 Japanese American Redress: The Proper Alignment Model 407

Labor Organizing 421

4.3 Building an Asian Pacific Labor Alliance: A New Chapter in Our History 421

Urban Riots: A Case Study of the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising 431

4.4 America’s First Multiethnic ’Riots.’ 431

Political Redistricting 441

4.5 Asian Pacific Americans and Redistricting Challenges in 2001 441

Index 451

About the Contributors 469