Contemporary Asian America (third edition) A Multidisciplinary Reader / edited by Min Zhou and Anthony C. Ocampo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ocampo, Anthony Christian, Editor.

Zhou, Min, 1956- Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (681 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

London : New York University Press, 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studiesWho are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the “Asian American” umbrella, they have tirelessly carved out their presence in the labor market, education, politics, and pop culture. Many times, they have done so in the face of racism, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Today, contemporary Asian America has emerged as an incredibly diverse population, with each segment of the community facing its unique challenges. When Contemporary Asian America was first published in 2000, it exposed its readers to the formation and development of Asian American studies as an academic field of study, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the systematic inquiry into more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the century’s end. It was the first volume to integrate a broad range of interdisciplinary research and approaches from a social science perspective to assess the effects of immigration, community development, and socialization on Asian American communities. This updated third edition discusses the impact of September 11 on Asian American identity and citizenship; the continued influence of globalization on past and present waves of immigration; and the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class on the experiences of Asian immigrants and their children. The volume also provides study questions and recommended supplementary readings and documentary films. This critical text offers a broad overview of Asian American studies and the current state of Asian America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary Asian America

1. “On Strike!” San Francisco State College Strike, 1968–1969: The Role of Asian American Students

2. The “Four Prisons” and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s

3. Contemporary Asian America: Immigration, Demographic Transformation, and Ethnic Formation

4. The Waves of War: Refugees, Immigrants, and New Americans from Southeast Asia

5. New Household Forms, Old Family Values: The Formation and Reproduction of the Filipino Transnational Family in Los Angeles

6. The Reorganization of Hmong American Families in Response to Poverty

7. Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New Patterns of Settlement among Asian Immigrants

8. Just Getting a Job Is Not Enough: How Indian Americans Navigate the Workplace

9. Gender, Migration, and Work: Filipina Health Care Professionals to the United States

10. The Making and Transnationalization of an Ethnic Niche: Vietnamese Manicurists

11. “Tomboys” and “Baklas”: Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Filipino Americans

12. No Fats, Femmes, or Asians: The Utility of Critical Race Theory in Examining the Role of Gay Stock Stories in the Marginalization of Gay Asian Men

13. Are Asians Black? The Asian American Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Paradigm

14. Are Second-Generation Filipinos “Becoming” Asian American or Latino? Historical Colonialism, Culture, and Panethnicity

15. Are Asian Americans Becoming White?

16. Are We “Postracial”? Intermarriage, Multiracial Identification, and Changing Color Lines

17. Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transnational Adoption

18. A Letter to My Sister and a Twenty-Five-Year Anniversary

19. “Racial Profiling” in the War on Terror: Cultural Citizenship and South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States

20. Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience

21. Jeremy Lin’s Model Minority Problem

22. Continuing Significance of the Model Minority Myth: The Second Generation

23. Racial Anxieties, Uncertainties, and Misinformation: A Complex Picture of Asian Americans and Selective College Admissions

24. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences

25. Critical Thoughts on Asian American Assimilation in the Whitening Literature

26. Beyond the Perpetual Foreigner and Model Minority Stereotypes: A Critical Examination of How Asian Americans Are Framed

27. Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence from the 2008 National Asian American Survey

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479849994

1479849995

OCLC:

947128384