Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America by Fred Ho

Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America Reviews

• 
  Sara Kalantar

  "In the 1970's Asian Americans made up around 1% of population, but virtually every major community, campus, or cultural campaign, organization and issue had the leading presence of leftists"
  
  ABSOLUTE MUST READ - underscores and elucidates the powerfully revolutionary and MOSTLY FORGOTTEN history of Asian Americans (and the history of third world liberation movements in the U.S.) with a variety of different perspectives, emphasizing the importance of building national consciousness, pride, and identity on the road to liberation. This is a collage of essays, historical timelines, poetry, historical and personal accounts. Incredible, inspiring, vast- I am in awe, angry, and fired up!!!!
• 
  Parag

  I'm a little biased because I tend to get a little teary-eyed about the "good ol' revolutionary days" at the beginning of the "Asian American Movement," but here are some reflections from people involved.
  
  I'm annoyed, as usual, that there's virtually no (4 pages on South Asians Against Police Brutality in NY doesn't count) documentation of radical and revolutionary South Asian American work - if no one writes about it, will it mean anything?
• 
  James Tracy

  This is an important book to read because it sheds some light on the very underdocumented history of the Asian-American left since the sixties. For historical purposes it is fantastic. Many of the articles are hard to read, suffering from a didactic style reminiscent of, well, the sixties.
• 
  Alex

  From activism to the arts, this reader was a great run down of Asians in AmeriKKKa during the 1960s and '70s, and some of what these activists and artists did afterwards.