Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation Contributor(s): Tsuchiya, Kazuyo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816681120 ISBN-13: 9780816681129 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2014 |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Political Science | Political Process - Political Advocacy - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
Dewey: 307.140 |
LCCN: 2013028366 |
Series: Critical American Studies |
Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.61" W x 8.45" (0.87 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Geographic Orientation - California - Ethnic Orientation - Korean - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Cultural Region - Southern California |
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Local activists in Los Angeles and Kawasaki ardently challenged the welfare institutions. By creating opposition movements and voicing alternative visions of citizenship, African American leaders, Tsuchiya argues, turned Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty into a battle for equality. Koreans countered the city's and the nation's exclusionary policies and asserted their welfare rights. Tsuchiya's work exemplifies transnational antiracist networking, showing how black religious leaders traveled to Japan to meet Christian Korean activists and to provide counsel for their own struggles. Reinventing Citizenship reveals how race and citizenship transform as they cross countries and continents. By documenting the interconnected histories of African Americans and Koreans in Japan, Tsuchiya enables us to rethink present ideas of community and belonging. |