The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies : Autonomy and Representation in the University / Mark Chiang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiang, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Minorities.

Ethnology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Ethnology.

Asian Americans--Politics and government.

Asian Americans.

Autonomy.

Ethnicity--Political aspects--United States.

Ethnicity.

Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Asian Americans--Study and teaching (Higher).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London, [England] : New York University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental advisory boards, planning and developing areas of the curriculum, university pressures eventually dictated their expulsion. At that moment in history, the intellectual work of the field was split off from its relation to the community at large, giving rise to the entire problematic of representa

Contents:

Introduction: Institutionalization and the crisis of representation

From cultural politics to cultural capital

Contradictions in the emergence of ethnic studies

Disciplinarity and the political identity of Asian American studies

The political economy of minority literature

Asian American cultural capital and the crisis of legitimation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-9001-1

OCLC:

779828441