Contemporary Asian American Activism: // Building Movements for Liberation

Transformative change through unruly resistance, defiant love, and radical care

In the struggles for prison abolition, global anti-imperialism, immigrant rights, affordable housing, environmental justice, fair labor, and more, twenty-first-century Asian American activists are speaking out and standing up to systems of oppression. Creating emancipatory futures requires collective action and reciprocal relationships that are nurtured over time and forged through cross-racial solidarity and intergenerational connections, leading to a range of on-the-ground experiences.

Bringing together grassroots organizers and scholar-activists,Contemporary Asian American Activismpresents lived experiences of the fight for transformative justice and offers lessons to ensure the longevity and sustainability of organizing. In the face of imperialism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and more, the contributors celebrate victories and assess failures, reflect on the trials of activist life, critically examine long-term movement building, and inspire continued mobilization for coming generations.

Diane C. Fujino is professor of Asian American studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author ofNisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake(UWP, 2020),Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance and a Paradoxical Life(University of Minnesota Press, 2012), andHeartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama(University of Minnesota Press, 2005). She is also editor ofBlack Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party(Haymarket, 2020) andWicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader(University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is editor for the Critical Filipinx Studies series. She is author ofIn Lady Liberty’s Shadow: Race and Immigration in New Jersey(Rutgers, 2017) andMigrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World(Minnesota, 2010). She is also editor ofContemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation(with Diane Fujino; UW Press, 2022),Asian America, 2nd Edition (with Pawan Dhingra; Wiley, 2021), andFilipino American Transnational Activism: Diasporic Politics among the Second Generation(Brill, 2019).

• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Publish Date: April 5, 2022
• Pages: 336
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9780295749808
• Dimensions: 9.0 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches | 1.1 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Politics