[Review of] Leland T. Saito. Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos, and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb

Authors

David Covin

Orginal Publication Date

1998

Journal Title

Ethnic Studies Review

Volume

21

Issue

esr/vol21/iss1

First Page

134

Last Page

137

Comments

The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference Perspectives and Retrospectives

Abstract

This book is a testament to the maturity of ethnic studies curricula. They were developed by activist students, primarily of Asian, Native American, African, and Latino ancestry, and by faculty members who had no formal training in ethnic studies because the discipline did not exist. The faculty who participated in the creation of ethnic studies curricula were scholars with an interest in this emerging field or people who by dint of race were deemed to have interests in the field. By training they were primarily historians, English department faculty, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and art and drama department faculty. There was no shared corpus of work, methodology, or background among them.

Rights

​Copyright ©ESR, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1998