In Defense of Civil Rights: The 40 Year History of the Asian Law Caucus

Far too often, the traditional Black-white paradigms of race relations in America have ignored the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to the U.S. civil rights movement. Academic classes that cover civil rights at all levels of American education have left out seminal cases such as the first federal criminal conviction overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court (U.S. v. Korematsu), the first Asian Pacific American class action employment discrimination case (United Pilipinos for Affirmative ...