Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities

by Yen Le Espiritu

Book Overview

Explores the construction of large-scale affiliations, in which unrelated groups submerge their differences and assume a common identity. Making use of interviews and statistical data, this book examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566390966
• ISBN13: 9781566390965
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Major source of Asian American panethnic information

Yen Le Espiritu's book is probably the major source of research and theory dealing with Asian American panethnicity. While there are a few other researchers doing panethnicity work with other ethnic groups, this book remains the main source for those studying Asian Americans.Her summaries of theories of ethnicity are very short and perhaps leave out a little too much. But, the book does a good job of giving the reader an introduction to some major theories in preparation for her ideas. Her main areas are politics, funding, census classifications and anti-Asian violence.I appreciate this book a great deal in that it brings together some disparate pieces of information and puts it all in the context of panethnicity.