Cultural/Political Activism and Ethnic Studies (1969–2019)

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Victoria Wong
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Community Activism

The author reflects on her decades of cultural and political activism in the fight for Ethnic Studies—from her role in the 1969 Third World Strike at UC Berkeley, to her community activism after her graduation, to her participation in the fiftieth anniversary of the strike, including a transcription of her speech at the event.

Liberating a Colonized Mind

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Ysidro Macías
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Community Activism

The author reflects upon his experiences organizing Chicano students, supporting community activism, and participating in the 1969 Third World Strike at UC Berkeley. He additionally offers his own perspective on the importance of Ethnic Studies both inside and outside of academia

Ethnic Studies on its Fiftieth Anniversary

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Harvey Dong
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

The author reflects on his participation in the Asian American Political Alliance and involvement in the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley in 1969, as well as the development and challenges with Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies.

TWLF Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-172
Author(s):  
Jesús Barraza
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Jesús Barraza is an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers on social justice themes. Jesús provides a brief introduction to his artwork, focusing on posters he created that reflect different anniversary years of the Third World Liberation Front and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley.

Public Talk at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the TWLF at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-161
Author(s):  
Paola Bacchetta
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Third World ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Third World

This is a version of a public talk by Professor Paola Bacchetta of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley, which she read at a rally that commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Third World Strike on the same campus. The rally was part of a series of related events and it took place on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley on January 22, 2019. The rally speakers and participants included elders from the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) movement, current students and professors, and community members. The purpose of the rally was to bring people together to remember and honor the struggle of the TWLF and to inspire links between the past and present struggles.

From domestic to international: the politics of ethnic identity in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 941-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enze Han
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Community Activism ◽  
Contrasting Cases ◽  
Satisfactory Explanation ◽  
International Support ◽  
Imperial Japan

This paper examines two contrasting cases of ethnic-group political activism in China – the Uighurs in Xinjiang and the Mongols in Inner Mongolia – to explain the former's political activism and the latter's lack thereof. Given similar challenges and pressures, how can we explain the divergent patterns in these two groups’ political behavior? This paper forwards the argument that domestic factors alone are not sufficient to account for differences in the groups’ political behavior. Instead, international factors have to be included to offer a fuller and satisfactory explanation. The paper illustrates how three types of international factors – big power support, external cultural ties, and Uighur diaspora community activism – have provided opportunities and resources to make the Uighur political activism sustainable. In Inner Mongolia, its quest for self-determination reached the highest fervor in the early half of the twentieth century, particularly with the support of imperial Japan. However, since the end of WWII, Inner Mongolia has not received any consistent international support and, as a result, has been more substantially incorporated into China's geopolitical body.

Ethnic Studies Fifty Years Later

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
Francisco Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Chicano Studies ◽  
Personal Experiences

The author recounts his personal experiences of the 1969 Third World Strike at UC Berkeley as well as reflects on the importance of Chicano Studies and Ethnic Studies: its value to the students in these programs and to wider community. He also discusses the continuing struggle for support within the academy.

Journeys for Peace and Liberation: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the U.S. War in Vietnam

2007 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Asian American History ◽  
Forthcoming Book ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Solidarity ◽  
The U.S

This article introduces a forthcoming book project that examines the international travels of American antiwar activists during the U.S. War in Vietnam. Specifically, it explores how going beyond the nation's borders fostered and solidified a sense of internationalism, a conviction of political solidarity, with Third World nations among U.S. radicals of varying backgrounds. This study builds on recent trends in Asian American history and contributes to the scholarship on social movements during the ““long decade”” of the 1960s by providing a transnational, racially comparative, and gendered analysis of political activism. It also introduces the concept of ““radical Orientalism”” to describe the ways in which Americans of varying racial backgrounds perceived, imagined, and understood Asia, its culture, and its peoples as sources of political inspiration.

Faith, activism and the churches in Canada: Lessons from the Canada-Guatemala solidarity movement

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 425-440
Author(s):  
Jennifer Peirce ◽  
Lisa Kowalchuk
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Solidarity Movement ◽  
Role Of Religion

This essay examines the contributions made by Kathryn Anderson's book, Weaving Relationships: Canada-Guatemala Solidarity (2003), to an understanding of the role of religion in social and political activism and to current debates on how the churches in Canada can be revitalized. A key insight the book offers is that people are drawn to support justice struggles in other countries by a combination of commitment to religious values and communities and a quest for personal spiritual growth. Anderson draws on the experiences of the solidarity participants both in their interaction with Guatemalan communities and activists and with their own local churches to suggest four ways for Canadian churches to revitalize their outreach to third world peoples and to their own congregations.

The Socio-Economic Determinants of Popular-Authoritarian Electoral Behavior: The Case of Peronism

1977 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1423-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Schoultz
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Electoral Behavior ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Industrial Growth ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Socioeconomic Variables ◽  
Social Sectors

In several highly mobilized Third World societies, rising levels of working-class political activism seem to have encouraged the development of political movements which are both popular and authoritarian. This popular authoritarianism melds intensive political mobilization of previously excluded social sectors with political structures which severely limit these groups' ability to affect public policy. Much of the research on popular authoritarianism has attempted to explain the phenomenon by identifying the socioeconomic determinants of popular-authoritarian electoral behavior. In an effort to clarify the relative merit of contending explanations, this study uses data from the prototypic case of Argentine Peronism to test six common hypotheses and then to construct a model which optimizes the explanatory ability of five major socioeconomic variables. The results indicate that an area's rate of industrial growth and the size of its working-class population account for more than four-fifths of the variation in Peronisi electoral behavior that can be attributed to socioeconomic variables.

The Third World in the Fiftieth State

Gateway State ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 182-209
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller-Davenport
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
The Third ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Opposition Movements ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

This chapter challenges the progressive narrative of Hawaiʻi's boosters. It does so by analyzing the rise of opposition movements in Hawaiʻi. In particular, groups advocating for ethnic studies programs at the University of Hawaiʻi and related, nascent movements for native rights are considered. While the liberal multiculturalism of state boosters went largely uncontested in Hawaiʻi in the years before and after statehood, by the late 1960s Hawaiʻi's colonial history and its consequences would be reawakened as excitement over statehood gave way to widespread discontent among those excluded from statehood's rewards. Like the architects of Hawaiʻi's cultural exchange institutions, radicals in Hawaiʻi were also responding to Third World movements for cultural nationalism—as movements not to counteract, but to emulate.

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