Flashpoints for Asian American Studies / Cathy Schlund-Vials.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

Schlund-Vials, Cathy, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Intellectual life.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--Social conditions.

Asian Americans--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection that considers–almost fifty years after its student protest founding--the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and—more provocatively, has not—responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique

Chapter 1. Five De cades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet

Chapter 2. Has Asian American Studies Failed?

Chapter 3. The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus

Chapter 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University

Chapter 5. Un - homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment

Chapter 6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades

Chapter 7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia

Chapter 8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer

Chapter 9. Against the Yellow washing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States

Chapter 10. Transpacific Entanglements

Chapter 11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies

Chapter 12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era

Chapter 13. Asians Are the New . . . What?

Chapter 14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth

Chapter 15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection

Chapter 16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul)

Chapter 17. An Ethics of Generosity

Afterword. Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-8062-4

0-8232-7863-8

OCLC:

1003261849