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         Asian-american Civil Rights:     more books (100)
  1. Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience by Angelo N. Ancheta, 1998-01
  2. Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy by Lora Jo Foo, 2003
  3. Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy by Lora Jo Foo, 2007-06-19
  4. Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects (Stanford Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
  5. Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School (Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics) by Rowena Robles, 2006-07-17
  6. The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community by Pei-te Lien, 2004-01-02
  7. Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy (Spectrum Series) by James S. Lai, 2003-02
  8. The Racial Logic of Politics: Asian Americans and Party Competition (Asian American History and Culture) by Thomas P. Kim, 2006-12-28
  9. Voices across America roundtable discussions of Asian civil rights issues (SuDoc CR 1.2:AS 4/5) by U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 1991
  10. Asian Americans: Oral Histories of First to Fourth Generation Americans from China, the Philippines, Japan, India, the Pacific Islands, Vietnam and by Joann Faung Jean Lee, 1992-12
  11. Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (Asian America) by Leslie Hatamiya, 1994-10-01
  12. The South Asian Americans (The New Americans) by Karen Isaksen Leonard, 1997-10-30
  13. The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (Asian American History and Culture Series) by Timothy P. Fong, 1994-09
  14. To Save China, to Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (Asian American History and Culture) by Renqiu Yu, 1995-09

21. Third Thursdays: What's Next? Asian American Civil Rights Post 9/11
What s next? Asian American civil rights post 9/11. This month s TT looks at thestate of Asian American civil rights in the post 9/11 era. Speakers include
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This month, most media coverage and collective thoughts will center on the one year anniversary of 9/11, the lives lost, and dear friends and families affected. At the same time, post 9/11 has brought civil rights to the forefront as more and more communities' civil rights are restricted by legislation such as the Patriot Act. But even before, the API communities civil rights have always been severely impacted. From the Dr. Wen Ho Lee's espionage charge to the threat of job loss for Filipino airport screeners, each case has revealed the constant struggle facing Asian Americans to protect civil rights that are often narrowed out of national security concerns and nationalistic tendencies. This month's TT looks at the state of Asian American civil rights in the post 9/11 era. Speakers include:
  • Victor Hwang
    Managing Attorney, API Legal Outreach

22. NAPABA Website
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association is the United States' only national association activities in the areas of civil rights reform, combating antiimmigrant backlash
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  • June 26, 2004 - 2004 Northeast Regional Conference, New Jersey Law Center, Brunswick, NJ.
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  • NAPABA 16th Annual Convention 2004 will be held on November 11-14, 2004 in Dallas, Texas. Click here for more information. How to Join Find out how to join NAPABA in our Joining section. NAPABA is a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt organization. Contributions or gifts to NAPABA are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. However, membership dues may be tax deductible as ordinary and necessary business expenses and contributions or gifts may be tax deductible under other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. This general statement may not apply to your specific situation; please consult your tax advisor. Document Downloads Many of the application forms on this site are generated in PDF format. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click the button below to download a copy from www.adobe.com:
  • 23. CAA - 33 Years Of Civil Rights Activism
    service and advocacy needs of the dramatically increasing Asian American and immigrant ofthe Coalition were MALDEF, Lawyers Committee for civil rights of the
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    Visitacion Valley 1099 Sunnydale Avenue, #325 San Francisco, CA 94134 t 415.587.5779 Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) 1225 Eighth Street, #470 Sacramento, CA 95814 t 916.321.9001 f 916.321.9002 caa@caasf.org 33 Years of Civil Rights Activism Community Activists and students establish CAA to advocate on behalf of Chinese Americans who are systematically denied equal opportunities in many sectors of society. CAA assists in preparing the landmark US Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols which results in bilingual education provisions for growing numbers of Chinese- and Spanish-speaking public school students in San Francisco. In cooperation with KPIX-TV, CAA produces the

    24. Civil Rights Movement Timeline
    Editor's Favorites. Asian American Month. 2004 Events. Quotations. Timelines The case is considered the cause célèbre of the civil rights movement. Top
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    25. NAPALC Home
    National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium works to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans importance to the Asian American community including affirmative
    http://www.napalc.org/
    Founded in 1991, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium works to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans through advocacy, public policy, public education, and litigation. In accomplishing its mission, NAPALC focuses its work to Promote Civic Engagement , to Forge Strong and Safe Communities , and to Create an Inclusive Society in communities on a local, regional, and national level. NAPALC is one of the nation's leading experts on issues of importance to the Asian American community including: affirmative action, anti-Asian violence prevention/race relations, census, immigrant rights, language access, and voting rights. Enter NAPALC.org Our affiliates are: © 2003 National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. All rights reserved.

    26. Asian American Civil Rights
    Asian American civil rights. Asian American civil rights Timeline. http//www.mich.com/~ywu/aacr.html
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    Asian American Civil Rights Asian American Civil Rights Timeline
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    27. AALDEF: Civil Rights Issues
    Asian American Leadership Development. What s New civil rights Press Releases JoinAALDEF Volunteer About Us Site Map Donate 911 Response Affirmative Action
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    28. Asian American Empowerment: ModelMinority.com - Civil Rights Group Urges Berkele
    A massive collection of research articles, commentaries, stories, and other documents on the Asian American experience. of growing fear rippling through many Asian American communities that they
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    ... Theatre Login Nickname Password Register for full site privileges. It's fast, free, and privacy-protected. Send a Postcard Do your part to spread Asian American awareness by sending this postcard to your friends! Part of a series. Read More and Comment Link to Us Add fresh Asian American content to your Web site! Just cut and paste the HTML code into your site to generate the hot link below. This icon is updated everytime a major article is published on our site. Traditional 468x60 banner Get Our News Feed Add even fresher Asian American content to your Web site! Just click here for HTML code you can cut and paste into your site to generate a live feed of our most recent headlines. Click here to see how the live feed will appear on your site. Or click here for an RSS feed. Civil Rights Group Urges Berkeley to Lift Asia Ban Posted by Andrew on Thursday, May 08 @ 10:00:00 EDT Berkeley UC Berkeley's ban on summer students from SARS-afflicted areas in Asia drew criticism from a Chinese American civil rights group Tuesday, while other campuses considered whether to impose more stringent measures to avert the virus.

    29. AALDEF's APA 2004 Home Page
    was founded to serve the legal needs of the Asian American community in joined cityofficials, prominent attorneys, members of the civil rights community, and
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    Thirty years ago, AALDEF was founded to serve the legal needs of the Asian American community in the New York metropolitan area. On March 25th, over 800 former clients, volunteers, cooperating attorneys, staff members, board members, and law student interns joined city officials, prominent attorneys, members of the civil rights community, and Asian Americans from all over the nation for a 30th Anniversary Gala honoring AALDEF's three decades of service. PIER SIXTY at Chelsea Piers in New York City was the site of the festivities, which featured Justice in Action Awards for award-winning filmmaker Mira Nair, pathbreaking lawyer and activist Alice Young of Kaye Scholer LLP, and the Open Society Institute, whose pioneering work is helping to build a more open global society. AALDEF, founded in 1974, protects the civil rights of Asian Americans through litigation, advocacy, and community education. Since September 11, 2001, AALDEF has provided free legal consultations and representation to 9-11 detainees, hate crime victims, and others affected by the anti-immigrant backlash. In addition, AALDEF has organized legal clinics, trainings on individual rights, and community meetings across the New York metropolitan area. For information or to find out about other 30th anniversary activities , please email us at or call the AALDEF office at 212-966-5932.

    30. Civil Rights Webpage
    index_active.html; http//www.rand.org/centers/icj/; http//www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/.Asian American civil rights http//www.pacificnews
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    Tefft Middle School Purpose: You will be able to apply your knowledge of the constitution and Civil Rights Movement to current issues and controversies as you determine the status of civl rights and liberties today!
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    • A series of news articles, and photographs chronicling the civil rights movement in the United States.
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    • American Policy Center: View information and articles on issues surrounding American civil rights.
    http://www.americanpolicy.org/
    • Center for Democracy: Provides information about civil rights, current legislation, and news on civil rights in the United States.
    http://www.cdt.org/

    31. Asian Americans And 1996 California Civil Rights Initiative
    Action, as the basis for analyzing and interpreting Asian American political activism factwas clearly illustrated during the California civil rights Initiative
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    32. Civilrights.org California Organization Grades Lawmakers On
    Organization Grades Lawmakers on Asian American Issues. By civilrights.org staff civilrights.org.January 15, 2004. Asian Americans for civil rights and Equality
    http://www.civilrights.org/issues/enforcement/details.cfm?id=17894

    33. Civilrights.org Civil Rights 101
    OTHER civil rights ISSUES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN to the Asian Americancommunity include hate crimes based on race and/or ethnicity.
    http://www.civilrights.org/research_center/civilrights101/asians.html
    showDate(11) Issues select an issue Affirmative Action Census CR Enforcement Criminal Justice Disability Education GLBT Hate Crimes Housing/Lending Human Rights Immigration Indigenous Peoples Info/Comm/Tech Judiciary Labor/ Working Families Poverty/Welfare Religious Freedom Social Security/Seniors Voting Rights Home Donate Now! About Campaigns ... Civil Rights 101 Civil Rights 101 Table of Contents Introduction Part One: Civil Rights: A Chronology Demographics Part Two: Law and Policy Supreme Court and Civil Rights School Desegregation Housing ... Criminal Justice Part Three: Civil Rights Expanded Women People with Disabilities Gays and Lesbians ... Latinos Part Four: Race, Class and Economic Justice ASIAN AMERICANS ASIAN AMERICANS have long faced race and/or national discrimination discussed above in employment, education, housing, and voting. This discrimination has historically taken many invidious forms, including immigration quotas targeted at persons of Asian ancestry and the forced internment of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II. OTHER CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES OF PARTICULAR CONCERN to the Asian American community include hate crimes based on race and/or ethnicity. For example, preliminary data from the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium indicates that there were 454 reported incidents of hate violence against Asians and Pacific Islanders in 1999, an increase from 1998.

    34. Asian American Empowerment: ModelMinority.com - Civil Rights Chief Lee Gains Ful
    He served as a Supervising Attorney for civil rights Litigation at the Center for Universityand was a volunteer attorney for the Asian American Legal Defense
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    35. Asian American Empowerment: ModelMinority.com - Civil Rights Group Urges Berkele
    Some 50 of the nation s leading Asian American civil rights groups, including theHmong National Development, the National Federation of Filipino American
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    Civil Rights Group Urges Berkeley to Lift Asia Ban
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    Thursday, May 08 @ 10:00:00 EDT
    Topic: Society
    Berkeley UC Berkeley's ban on summer students from SARS-afflicted areas in Asia drew criticism from a Chinese American civil rights group Tuesday, while other campuses considered whether to impose more stringent measures to avert the virus. Berkeley announced Friday it was barring hundreds of students from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore who had planned to take classes this summer. The action, believed to be the first for a U.S. university, made international headlines.
    The campus removed Singapore from the list Tuesday because the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed its travel advisory for Singapore on Tuesday, said Associate Chancellor John Cummins. Only a small number of students from Singapore are enrolled, so the total affected from the other three regions still exceeds 400, he said.
    Campus Follows CDC List
    The campus list of areas whose students are barred corresponds to the "advisory" list of regions to which the CDC recommends that nonessential travel be deferred. In response, the executive director of San Francisco-based Chinese for Affirmative Action, Diane Chin, said the Berkeley policy "excludes people from educational opportunities based only on their country of origin without any possible exceptions made for individual circumstances."

    36. Division For Public Education National Asian Pacific American
    Before joining NAPALC she was the Washington DC representative for the nation s largestmembershipbased Asian American civil rights organization, the Japanese
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    As President and Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC), Karen Narasaki is one of the nation's most effective advocates for Asian Pacific Americans and other minority group members. Her compelling life story demonstrates how affirmative action programs are needed even for the so-called "model minorities." Karen Narasaki's commitment to the ongoing struggle for civil rights for the nation's Asian Pacific Americans is rooted in a long history of discrimination. Years before her birth in 1958 in Seattle, her father and his family were interned in World War II because of their Japanese descent. Her father, a third-generation Japanese-American, born in California, went on to serve valiantly with the famed 442nd Battalion in the later stages of the war. Although he was a successful engineer with Boeing, he was unable to make a home for his family in Seattle's middle and upper class areas, because of property covenants that restricted Asian Pacific Americans and other minorities from living in those neighborhoods. As a result, he moved the family to a blue-collar suburb, where young Karen attended under-resourced public schools. Few of her classmates attended college, and the Ivy League schools that her father wished Karen to attend did not send recruiters to her high school.

    37. Affirmative Employment Program - Office Of Civil Rights - FHWA
    Office of civil rights. Affirmative Employment Program. FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION.AFFIRMATIVE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM For ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDERS FY 02
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    Internal Employment Opportunities
    The FHWA concentrated its efforts to establish a "close and professional" relationship with college and university contacts University Career Centers, Technology Placement Offices, Engineering Professors, Researchers and Department Heads at the following institutions of higher education (IHE) to recruit engineers. These IHEs have high populations of Asian American/Pacific Islander students:
    • University of California, Berkeley California State University, Los Angeles University of Colorado at Boulder Colorado State University Morgan State University University of Detroit Mercy University of Minnesota, Duluth Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute State University of New York at Buffalo The Pennsylvania State University University of Vermont
    Entry level (GS-7 and GS-9) career opportunities were posted on these and other IHEs' websites to attract graduating minority students interested in the FHWA Professional Development Program for careers in the following fields:
    • Civil Engineer (transportation, structural, safety, materials/pavements, geotechnical)

    38. Nondiscrimination - Office Of Civil Rights - FHWA
    Affirmative Employment Program for Asian American Pacific Islanders – FY 2002Accomplishment The Office of civil rights is responsible for submitting the
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    Nondiscrimination provisions apply to all programs and activities of Federal-aid recipients, sub-recipients, and contractors, regardless of tier. The obligation to not discriminate is based on the objective of Congress to not have funds, which were collected in a non-discriminatory manner used in ways that subsidize, promote, or perpetuate discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or retaliation. Primary recipients are responsible for determining and obtaining compliance by their sub-recipients and contractors. The recent passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the clarifications of the reach of Title VI in the arenas of Environmental Justice and the needs of Limited English Proficient populations have expanded jurisdiction, clients, and complexity.

    39. The Asian Pacific American Legal Center
    The project will inform local organizations and interested individuals of issuesthat affect Asian American civil rights and provide opportunities to support
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    Press Releases PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release

    May 16, 2003 CONTACT:
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    (213) 977-7500 ext. 212 Ted Wang
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    415-274-6760, ext. 306 Civil Rights Organizations Launch First Asian American Advocacy Office in California’s Capitol to Promote Civil Rights and Civic Participation SACRAMENTO - Chinese for Affirmative Action and Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California announced the formation of a new civil rights project to advocate on behalf of Asian Americans across California. Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) is the first project of its kind to locate in the state capital. An Open House to introduce the project will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 5 to 7 pm, at AACRE's Sacramento office at 1225 8th Street, on the 1 st floor.
    AACRE is a joint project of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC). Building on their combined decades of civil rights leadership in California, AACRE is a new voice for Asian Americans in the state's capital, focused on legislation and regulatory and fiscal policies. AACRE brings together CAA and APALC's unique combination of community ties, civil rights expertise, and immigrant rights advocacy, as well as strong relationships with community-based organizations throughout California.

    40. AAJA News: APA Community News
    For Immediate Release Posted 6/23/03. ASIAN AMERICAN civil rights GROUP APPLAUDSUS SUPREME COURT DECISION TO UPHOLD RACECONSCIOUS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMS.
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    ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP APPLAUDS U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION TO UPHOLD RACE-CONSCIOUS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMS
    New York, NY - The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based civil rights organization, praised today's United States Supreme Court decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the race-conscious affirmative action policy of Michigan Law School. "This decision is a great victory for civil rights," said AALDEF Executive Director Margaret Fung. "Although the Court rejected the particular program adopted by the University of Michigan in Gratz v. Bollinger, it recognized that affirmative action is an important tool to promote equal opportunity and racial diversity in higher education." "One misconception about affirmative action is that Asians and South Asians are not under-represented in academic institutions, do not face discrimination and have no need for programs that take into account a wide range of factors that circumscribe opportunity," said Chandra Bhatnagar, AALDEF staff attorney and Director of the South Asian Workers'' Project for Human Rights. He cited a recent national survey which found that 13% of Asian/South Asian females, 4.5 times the rate for white females, completed only an 8th grade education or less. In fact, Asians are underrepresented in numerous fields, such as history (2.2%), sociology (2.2%), English/literature (2.1%), philosophy (1.8%), education (1.6%), psychology (1.4%), political science (1.3%), and law (0.9%).

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