Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Introduce the genre of Modern Feminist Literature by offering exemplary works by Kate Chopin, Elizabeth Perkins Gilman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Virginia Woolf. This resource guide offers an overview of feminist literature, its etymology, historical context, favorite quotes, and useful links for further research. Our goal is to help teachers and students better.
Filipinos are the second-largest Asian American group, numbering around 3.5 million, which is approximately 20% of the Asian American population. In other words, 1 out of 5 Asian Americans is.
In my 700-student freshman U.S. history class, we learned about the civil rights movement and, briefly, the Asian American “Yellow Power” movement and the campaign for ethnic studies.
Even now, I find myself downplaying all of the slights, making light of what feels increasingly heavy lately, like a lot of my Asian American friends, a defense mechanism to blunt the sharp edges.
The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media, Routledge, 2017. Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu, eds., Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2001. Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics, Duke Univ. Press, 1996. Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film, Duke Univ. Press, 2000.
Civic Environment. In large part, the success of the feminist movement was driven by a favorable confluence of economic and societal changes. After World War II, the boom of the American economy outpaced the available workforce, making it necessary for women to fill new job openings; in fact, in the 1960s, two-thirds of all new jobs went to women. (18).
It was when some scholars on the academic left decided that the primary story to tell about America—indeed its constitutive feature—was “whiteness” that I first started feeling myself unbecoming American. Certainly, thinking about how and why white Americans failed to confront racism is essential to overcoming America’s racist history.