Dreaming in the Streets: The Origin and Legacy of Asian American Identity in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement

This panel discussion, the first program in the three-part series Harmony and Dissonance: Deconstructing Ethnicity and Agency in America, will explore the power of interethnic coalitions that brought together Asian American, African American, Latinx, and Native American cohorts to mobilize during the civil rights movement in the 1960s and that coincided with the origins of a formal acknowledgment of an Asian American identity. Panelists will discuss the legacy of this transformative moment of racial unity, fluctuations within these relationships over the last seventy years and into the present moment, and their common desire for social justice and equality.