Cultural/Political Activism and Ethnic Studies (1969–2019)

Victoria Wong is co-founder of the Asian American Political Alliance, activist of the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley, and independent scholar. She participated in a variety of movements, including the struggle to save the International Hotel and Manilatown, and co-founded the May 4th Singers, the first Asian American cultural group. In the 1980s, she adapted her poem “So long, Susy Wong” into a song that was recorded with the band Repeat Offenders. She authored the Pacific Basin Reports The Global Struggle for Oil (1973) and co-authored What Have Women Done? United Front Press (1971); Chinese WorkingPeople in the US: A Pictorial History, United Front Press (1972); and Stand Up: An Archive Collection of the Bay Area AsianAmerican Movement 1968–1974, Eastwind Books of Berkeley (2009).