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The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation. By Pei-te Lien. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 293p. $69.50 cloth, $19.95 paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2004

Wendy K. Tam Cho
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Extract

The field of Asian American politics is not uncharted terrain in American politics research, but it is certainly underexplored. The relative lack of scholarly attention, however, is likely to change, since Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the United States and have occupied this position for the last several decades. They thus comprise a large potential electoral base, which is largely uncultivated. Although much of the literature on the topic is written from the vantage point of electoral politics, Asian American politics does not actually fit well into this paradigm. Instead, Asian American politics is multifaceted and is, moreover, complicated by a multiethnic base.

Type
Book Reviews
Copyright
2003 by the American Political Science Association

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