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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: he People United: Cultural work and the making of Asian America, 1968--1985 Abstract: "The People United: Cultural Work and the Making of Asian America, 1968-1985" examines a key moment in the development of an Asian American identity: the earliest years in the Asian American Movement when participants defined the meanings of Asian America and integrated that identity into a political movement of social change. Cultural works--specifically Asian American Movement publications, political posters, music and performance--illustrate the process by which Asian American identity unfolded and was negotiated in this period. "Cultural workers," defined in this project as artists and intellectuals, were central to the Movement through their representational and ideological contributions, and their development of new institutions, resources and communities built around culture. Culture was a source of power, and the representations and strategic positions of cultural work were integrated with Movement efforts to oppose oppressions and fight for livable communities. Cultural representations are discussed in relationship to practices of political strategies of outreach, education and advocacy, and the material resources necessary for any representational work to occur, thus demonstrating the ideological and material dynamics of cultural politics. |
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