Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
Kevin R. Johnson |
Racial Hierarchy, Asian Americans and Latinos as "Foreigners," and Social Change: Is Law the Way to Go? |
76 Oregon Law Review 347 (Summer 1997) |
A symposium entitled Citizenship and Its Discontents could not be more timely. The end of the twentieth century has been marked by a lengthy debate in the United States, as well as in nations around the world, on citizenship and national identity. In response to mounting concerns about changes attributed to new immigrants, Congress in 1996... |
1997 |
Alfred Chueh-Chin Yen |
The Diversity among Us |
19 Western New England Law Review 36 (1997) |
The first thing I want to say is that I will be talking about different groups, Asian-Americans, Latinos, African-Americans, and I realize that every one of those communities is very diverse. I therefore want to make it clear that I am not using these terms to herd us all into some kind of monolithic cookie-cutter mold. I am instead simply trying... |
1997 |
Chris K. Iijima |
The Era of We-construction: Reclaiming the Politics of Asian Pacific American Identity and Reflections on the Critique of the Black/white Paradigm |
29 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 47 (Fall 1997) |
My six-year-old half-Asian son has just had his first Ching Chong Chinaman taunting in school. I was expecting it, but it threw me off-balance nevertheless. He said it hurt his feelings and asked me for answers. I, of course, had none. I thought about what the appropriate response was for a six-year-old whose new consciousness of racism had begun... |
1997 |
Lisa C. Ikemoto |
The Fuzzy Logic of Race and Gender in the Mismeasure of Asian American Women's Health Needs |
65 University of Cincinnati Law Review 799 (Spring 1997) |
It is said that if you have your health, you have everything. This common wisdom expresses recognition that physical and mental health premise much of what we are, what we can do, and what we need. Status, wealth, and health are very closely linked. In part, status and wealth are interdependent with health. The Americans with Disabilities Act... |
1997 |
Joel B. Grossman |
The Japanese American Cases and the Vagaries of Constitutional Adjudication in Wartime: an Institutional Perspective |
19 University of Hawaii Law Review 649 (Fall 1997) |
Notwithstanding the worldwide emergence of constitutions and constitutionalism, the proliferation of constitutional courts with powers of judicial review, and the spread of the rights revolution and concerns for international human rights, rights are always at risk in wartime and other national security crises. It has been said, perhaps with some... |
1997 |
Alfred C. Yen |
A Statistical Analysis of Asian Americans and the Affirmative Action Hiring of Law School Faculty |
3 Asian Law Journal 39 (May, 1996) |
Law schools have long implemented affirmative action faculty hiring practices to remedy past discrimination, increase diversity, and provide role models for students of color. However, there is a growing sense among the relatively few Asian American law faculty that Asian Americans are not included in affirmative action hiring efforts. The author... |
1996 |
Kenzo S. Kawanabe |
American Anti-immigrant Rhetoric Against Asian Pacific Immigrants: the Present Repeats the past |
10 Georgtown Immigration Law Journal 681 (Summer, 1996) |
These words signify the ideal on which America, the nation of immigrants, was built. Whether in 1820 or 1996, through Ellis Island or Angel Island, the American immigrant, inspired by the hopes and dreams of a better life, has brought human capital to this nation. With the exception of Native Americans and indigenous Hawaiian Americans, most... |
1996 |
Manjusha P. Kulkarni |
Application of the Civil Liberties Act to Japanese Peruvians: Seeking Redress for Deportation and Internment Conducted by the United States Government During World War Ii |
5 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 309 (Winter 1996) |
The evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II finally have made their way into our history books. The injustice of these events perpetrated by the United States government has awakened the conscience of Congress enough to induce it to appropriate redress to the victims. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 began providing... |
1996 |
Pat K. Chew |
Asian Americans in the Legal Academy: an Empirical and Narrative Profile |
3 Asian Law Journal 7 (May, 1996) |
Introduction. 8 I. Description of the Empirical Study. 11 II. An Identity Begins to Appear: Asian American Law Professor . 13 A. Women: An Emerging Group. 14 B. Foreign Educated: A Dwindling Group. 16 C. Recent Entrants: A Glimpse of the Future. 18 III. Further Details and Voices Behind the Profile. 13 A. Demographic Characteristics. 19 B.... |
1996 |
Virginia W. Wei |
Asian Women and Employment Discrimination: Using Intersectionality Theory to Address Title Vii Claims Based on Combined Factors of Race, Gender and National Origin |
37 Boston College Law Review 771 (July, 1996) |
born into the skin of yellow women we are born into the armor of warriors Kitty Tsui, Chinatown Talking Story Women of color experience discrimination in multiple spheres that cannot be categorized as solely race-based or solely gender-based. Their experiences are a result of both their race and gender. The identities of women of color must... |
1996 |
Karin Wang |
Battered Asian American Women: Community Responses from the Battered Women's Movement and the Asian American Community |
3 Asian Law Journal 151 (May, 1996) |
The anti-domestic violence movement has made significant progress in the past twenty years. However, these gains largely have not been realized by Asian American women. The author argues that for Asian American women, domestic violence is complicated by factors such as language barriers, immigrant status, cultural differences, and racial... |
1996 |
Frank H. Wu |
Changing America: Three Arguments about Asian Americans and the Law |
45 American University Law Review 811 (February, 1996) |
America is changing. Soon, people of color collectively will be the racial majority, while whites as a group will find themselves racial minorities like everyone else. Already, only about three-quarters of the United States population is Caucasian and non-Hispanic, to use Census Bureau classifications. This dramatic demographic shift is being... |
1996 |
Kenneth E. Payson |
Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-race People |
84 California Law Review 1233 (July, 1996) |
What are you? As the child of a Japanese mother and a White father, I have often been asked this question. While I am also male, heterosexual, law student, spouse, sibling, and child, this query is usually directed at my racial identity. As a mixed-race person, I am part of an ill-defined, amorphous group of persons who are increasingly becoming... |
1996 |
Eric K. Yamamoto |
Foreword: We Have Arrived, We Have Not Arrived |
3 Asian Law Journal 1 (May, 1996) |
In the following two articles, Professors Chew and Yen explain empirical studies revealing previously unexplored patterns in the hiring and retention of Asian American law faculty. Their findings announce both the arrival and struggle of Asian Americans as law professors. I cannot in this brief introduction do justice to the complexity of this... |
1996 |
Jerry Kang |
Negative Action Against Asian Americans: the Internal Instability of Dworkin's Defense of Affirmative Action |
31 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (Winter, 1996) |
[O]nce race is accepted as a proper factor to consider for purposes of achieving student diversity, it is susceptible to manipulation for restricting entry by members of certain groups. Thus, for example, if a relatively high proportion of Asians would gain admissions to medical school based solely on a competitive admissions process, a state... |
1996 |
Robert S. Chang |
Passion and the Asian American Legal Scholar |
3 Asian Law Journal 105 (May, 1996) |
When I was in law school, I wrote a short story called Orientals Anonymous. It opens with a group of people milling around in a room. Then someone calls the meeting to order. A man stands up and says, Hi, my name is Sam. I'm an Oriental. People clap. A woman stands up and says, Hi, my name is Beth. And I'm an Oriental. Again, people clap. It... |
1996 |
John Hayakawa Torok |
Reconstruction and Racial Nativism: Chinese Immigrants and the Debates on the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments and Civil Rights Laws |
3 Asian Law Journal 55 (May, 1996) |
The Reconstruction amendments and civil rights law historically have been viewed in the context of African American emancipation, naturalization, and enfranchisement. However, Chinese immigrants' presence and the racial nativism they engendered in the white polity influenced the debates surrounding that legislation and the attendant Supreme Court... |
1996 |
Gabriel J. Chin |
The Civil Rights Revolution Comes to Immigration Law: a New Look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 |
75 North Carolina Law Review 273 (November, 1996) |
In this historical analysis of the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965, Professor Chin argues that Congress eased restrictions on Asian immigration into the United States in an effort to equalize immigration opportunities for groups who had been the victims of discriminatory immigration laws in the past. In Part I of the Article, he... |
1996 |
Daniel P. Tokaji |
The Club: Asian Americans and Affirmative Action |
1-FALL NEXUS: A Journal of Opinion 47 (Fall, 1996) |
During a recent campaign swing through California, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole stopped to make a plug for Proposition 209, the so-called California Civil Rights Initiative. Not accidently, he chose to announce his endorsement of the initiative before a group of Asian Americans. Standing in front of a banner that read Celebrate... |
1996 |
Reggie Oh , Frank Wu |
The Evolution of Race in the Law: the Supreme Court Moves from Approving Internment of Japanese Americans to Disapproving Affirmative Action for African Americans |
1 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 165 (1996) |
Over the past fifty years, the United States Supreme Court has articulated the constitutional standards for the governmental use of racial classifications by referring repeatedly to its wartime decisions on the Japanese American internment. Those decisions were understood then as being emphatically not about race, but have been understood since as... |
1996 |
Gabriel J. Chin |
The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases |
82 Iowa Law Review 151 (October, 1996) |
For a century, the vision of racial equality expressed in John Marshall Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson has captured the legal imagination in a way matched by few other texts. Even today, the symbolic power of Harlan's rejection of segregation of African Americans and whites in New Orleans streetcars is rivaled only by the Reverend Martin... |
1996 |
Paula C. Johnson |
The Social Construction of Identity in Criminal Cases: Cinema Verite and the Pedagogy of Vincent Chin |
1 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 347 (Summer 1996) |
INTRODUCTION. 348 I. The Enigma of Race. 355 A. Theories of Racial Identity. 355 1. Biological Race. 355 2. Socially Constructed Race. 358 B. Constructions of Asian Americans. 359 1. Historical Constructions of Asian Identities. 359 a. Constructions of Early Chinese Immigrants. 362 b. Constructions of Early Japanese Immigrants. 371 c. Chinese and... |
1996 |
Constance Backhouse |
The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-century Canada |
14 Law and History Review 315 (Fall, 1996) |
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, provided the setting, in May 1912, for two widely publicized trials that highlighted the explosive fusion between race, gender, and class in early twentieth-century Canada. The prosecutions were based on a Saskatchewan statute passed several weeks earlier, An Act to Prevent the Employment of Female Labour in Certain... |
1996 |
Pauline C. Reich |
Women and the Law: an Annotated Internet-based Bibliography for U.s. and International Legal Research |
6 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 143 (Fall 1996) |
While teaching a course entitled, Women and the Law at one of Japan's leading universities, it suddenly occurred to me that there was a need to provide students with more current materials in English. Although the various Japanese libraries have excellent collections in English and in Japanese, it seemed that what was appearing on the Internet in... |
1996 |
Karen McBeth Chopra |
A Forgotten Minority an American Perspective: Historical and Current Discrimination Against Asians from the Indian Subcontinent |
1995 Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law Review 1269 (Winter, 1995) |
INTRODUCTION. 1270 I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. 1274 A. The First Wave. 1274 1. Anti-Immigration Pressures. 1278 2. The Indian Component in the Anti-Immigration Fervor. 1278 B. Establishing a Community. 1280 C. The Exclusion Acts. 1281 D. The Citizenship Color Bar and Denaturalization. 1285 1. What is White?. 1286 2. Effect on American Wives. 1287 E.... |
1995 |
Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee |
Beyond Black and White: Racializing Asian Americans in a Society Obsessed with O.j. |
6 Hastings Women's Law Journal 165 (Summer 1995) |
The O.J. Simpson double murder trial has been called the Trial of the Century and has captured the attention of millions. The trial has raised interesting questions about the convergence of issues regarding race, class, and gender. Rather than extensively discussing these global issues, this essay will focus on one aspect of the race issue that... |
1995 |
Robert C. Berring |
In Search of Equality: the Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-century America. By Charles J. Mcclain. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. X, 385. |
2 Asian Law Journal 87 (May 1, 1995) |
I was reading In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America [hereinafter In Search of Equality] by Charles J. McClain while riding a taxi to the Oakland airport. The taxi driver noticed the book and asked me what it was about. So I regaled him with stories of Chinese American history, stories about... |
1995 |
Kiyoko Kamio Knapp |
In the World, but Not of It: Japanese Companies Exploiting the U.s. Civil Rights Law |
24 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 169 (Fall, 1995) |
. Japan is a nation which has pursued commerce to the ends of the earth, yet cannot shed its age-old mistrust of what lies beyond its shores. Jared Taylor. A kimono-clad Oriental woman carries a torch of liberty on the front cover of the October 9, 1989, issue of Newsweek magazine. The illustration accompanies the headline Japan Invades Hollywood.... |
1995 |
Lawrence Kent Mendenhall |
Misters Korematsu and Steffan: the Japanese Internment and the Military's Ban on Gays in the Armed Forces |
70 New York University Law Review 196 (April, 1995) |
In Steffan v. Perry, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, upheld military regulations which stated that [h]omosexuality is incompatible with military service and excluded from the military those persons who engage in homosexual conduct or who, by their statements, demonstrate a propensity to engage in homosexual conduct.... |
1995 |
Elizabeth Kolby |
Moral Responsibility to Filipino AmerAsians: Potential Immigration and Child Support Alternatives |
2 Asian Law Journal 61 (May 1, 1995) |
Filipino Amerasian children, because they are biracial and also often the illegitimate children of prostitutes, are subjected to dire economic circumstances and social discrimination in the Philippines. In this Comment, the author argues that the United States owes a moral responsibility to these Filipino Amerasian children, arising from the U.S.... |
1995 |