3. “We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice”: Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. “Western People Are Not All Angels”: Encountering Racism on the West Coast 18
7. 2. A Problem by Any Other Name: Christian Student Associations, the “Second-Generation Problem,” and West Coast Racism 42
8. 3. “We Ask Not for Mercy, but for Justice”: Filipino Students and the Battle for Labor and Civil Rights 71
9. 4. “A Sweet-and- Sour World”: The Second Sino-Japanese War, Christian Citizenship, and Equality 106
10. 5. Christian Citizenship and Japanese American Incarceration during World War II 140
11. 6. Christian Social Action in the Postwar Era 175
12. Conclusion 212
13. Notes 215
14. Selected Bibliography 241
15. Index 251