10/17/2016

Miles Kim
ASAM 210
Presentation #3
Asian American as Agency
Reading 1: The four prisons and movements of liberation: ASAM
Activism from 60s to 90s
Research Questions:
o Why has the narrative surrounding the early ASAM activism
movements been?
Archival Sources
Philippine-American Collegiate Endeavor statement of goals and
principles
Key Word:
Key Term analysis
Ethnography
Neo-conservative
Negative view of 60s-70s ASAm activism
Against affirmative action
Could such a group exist without the efforts of early ASAM activism?
Reading 2: Roots: ASAM Reader
1. How has ASAM experience been selectively define by outside
parties?

Can the concept of a model minority be achieved?

Emergence of Yellow Power in America

o Identity
Q:
How might the lack of a MLK or Malcolm X in Asian American
movements affect the recognition and success of these movements?
Do you think its impossible to achieve a world without racism
through neo-conservatism?
Does the model minority exist?
How do you think ASAM can have more of an impact in their
communities (agency)?