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In this latest book, Kang (The Dead Do Not Improve) suggests that to understand the history of Asian Americans, one need only go back to 1968, when the term "Asian American" was created by a group of students in Berkeley. Prior to 1968, Kang writes, there were only "Asians in the United States," whom white Americans largely did not think of as fellow citizens. Kang addresses the history of the Berkeley movement in order to contextualize the construct of Asian Americ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More