Asian American studies now: a critical reader / edited by Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, 1948-

Chen, Thomas C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Social conditions.

American literature--Asian American authors.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (673 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors, summarizes and defines the current shape of this rapidly changing field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, U.S. imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, social justice, and pedagogy. Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen have selected essays for the significance of their contribution to the field and their clarity, brevity, and accessibility to readers with little to no prior knowledge of Asian American studies. Featuring both reprints of seminal articles and groundbreaking texts, as well as bold new scholarship, Asian American Studies Now addresses the new circumstances, new communities, and new concerns that are reconstituting Asian America.

Contents:

When and where I enter / Gary Y. Okihiro

Neither black nor white / Angelo N. Ancheta

Detroit blues: "Because of you motherfuckers" / Helen Zia

A dialogue on racial melancholia / David L. Eng and Shinhee Han

Home is where the Han is: a Korean American perspective on the Los Angeles upheavals / Elaine H. Kim

Recognizing native Hawaiians: a quest for sovereignty / Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor

Situating Asian Americans in the political discourse on affirmative action / Michael Omi and Dana Takagi

Racism: from domination to hegemony / Howard Winant

The Chinese are coming. How can we stop them? Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee

Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah

The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn

Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan

Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh

The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. Lee

Why China? Identifying histories of transnational adoption / Sara Dorow

The "four prisons" and the movements of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu

Youth culture, citizenship, and globalization: South Asian Muslim youth in the United States after September 11th / Sunaina Maira

Asian immigrant women and global restructuring, 1970s-1990s / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Medical, racist, and colonial constructions of power in Anne Fadiman's The spirit catches you and you fall down / Monica Chiu

Searching for community: Filipino gay men in New York City / Martin F. Manalansan IV

How to rehabilitate a mulatto: the iconography of Tiger Woods / Hiram Perez

Occult racism: the masking of race in the Hmong Hunter incident / a dialogue between anthropologist Louisa Schein and filmmaker/activist Va-Megn Thoj

Collateral damage: Southeast Asian poverty in the United States / Eric Tang

Whither Asian American studies? / Sucheng Chan

Freedom schooling: reconceptualizing Asian American studies for our communities / Glenn Omatsu

Asians on the rim: transnational capital and local community in the making of contemporary Asian America / Arif Dirlik

Crafting solidarities / Vijay Prashad

We will not be used: are Asian Americans the racial bourgeoisie? / Mari Matsuda

The struggle over parcel C: how Boston's Chinatown won a victory in the fight against institutional expansionism and environmental racism / Andrew Leong

Race matters in civic engagement work / Jean Y. Wu

Homes, borders, and possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86433-9

0-8135-4933-7

OCLC:

779828626