학술논문

Asian American Short Fiction.
Document Type
Article
Author
Ho, Wendy; Lutz, R. C.
Source
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2022. 3p.
Subject
Asian American literature
Language
Abstract
The period of the 1960’s and 1970’s was a significant time of social and political agitation and change in the United States. Among African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, a racial-ethnic consciousness and a festering anger grew concerning the long histories of racism these groups had endured, not only in the United States but also abroad in terms of colonialism and imperialism. The birth of the Civil Rights, black power, Third World revolutionary, and nationalist movements, as well as the anti-Vietnam War, free speech, and the women’s movements, were part of this turmoil. In recognizing the power of the dominant culture’s influence in shaping their personal and collective identity, many racial-ethnic groups began to articulate the need to construct self-defined identities.

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