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Kwon, Soo Ah. "A New Era of Second-Generation Youth of Color Organizing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Oct 12, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p113461_index.html>

Kwon, S. , 2006-10-12 "A New Era of Second-Generation Youth of Color Organizing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p113461_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper explores second-generation Asian and Pacific Islander youth activism in Oakland, California in the post-1965 immigration era. Based on a three year ethnographic study of AYPAL, a pan-ethnic youth activist coalition of six community organizations located in Oakland that gathers a diverse group of Asian and Pacific Islander youth including Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Laotian, Mien, Samoan, Tongan, and Vietnamese, I provide concrete examples of young people's political activism and argue that their actions reveal an oppositional consciousness that is counter-hegemonic. They exhibit a trajectory that is different from traditional notions of second-generation youth assimilation. Specifically I examine the relationship between collective action and racial political identities among the young people of my study. For example, some youth in their day-to-day lives may identify as Cambodian or Filipina, but at certain political actions they invoke pan-ethnic labels of “Asian and Pacific Islander,” and at other times, as “youth of color.” Their attention to both specific racial and ethnic identity and pan-ethnic identities in political mobilizing efforts points to the fluidity of political identities in certain collective actions. Although the young people of my study have disparate family immigration histories, cultural traditions, and languages, they find common ground in battling social inequalities that have real material effects on them as working-class and minority youth living in Oakland. I also situate their activism as stemming from a history radical organizing of the civil rights movement and Third World Movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the Bay Area. I describe how politicized racial and pan-ethnic identities surface in certain political actions in two concrete examples. The first describes AYPAL youth's attempt to maintain racial and cultural diversity at their local cultural center; it reveals the relevance of a political “Asian and Pacific Islander” identity as an organizing strategy. The second example documents AYPAL youth's participation in multi-racial coalition of youth organizations in the Bay Area to stop the expansion of juvenile hall. It shows how young people in the coalition organized around a political “youth of color” identity; a collective pan-ethnic identity that was developed in resistance to youth criminalization-the social, political, and economic marginalization of racial minority youth. Young people illustrate the link between politicized pan-ethnic identities and oppositional consciousness in collective action. The organizing to save diversity at the cultural center is a pan-Asian and Pacific Islander effort; the Super Jail campaign reveals the collective power of their political identity as youth of color. Political mobilizations and identities expand and contract along the axis of race and class in different political moments. Although such fluid frames are not without limitations, I examine how their tensions and differences are negotiated under a common goal: to fight for social justice. In such efforts, youth create new discourses, ideas, meanings, and relationships; they envision a different social world that is counter-hegemonic and oppositional. The second-generation youth in this study are forging new directions and new social practices for pan-ethnic political organizing and community activism.

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