Our Place in History: Ten Milestones in the Fight for Asian American Rights

A long overdue counternarrative to the story of Asian Americans as passive participants in the American story, by the co-president of the Asian American Legal Defense Fund Interest in Asian American issues and the place of Asian Americans in U.S. history has surged in recent years, from debates over affirmative action to terrifying episodes of anti-Asian violence. Yet, in part because of enduring racist stereotypes and the idea of Asian Americans as a model minority, Asian American communities are frequently portrayed as apolitical and passive—and their deeper history remains obscured. In Our Place in History, celebrated attorney, educator, and founding director of the Asian American Justice Center Phil Tajitsu Nash offers an important counternarrative to this myth, foregrounding the history of Asian American activism in a way few other books have done.