| Description |
1 online resource (x, 254 pages) |
| Series |
Asian American history and culture |
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Asian American history and culture.
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| Contents |
Asian and Latino immigration and the revitalization of Sunset Park, Brooklyn / Tarry Hum -- The politics and poetics of a Taiwanese Chinese American identity / Eileen Chia-Ching Fung -- Southeast Asians in the house: multiple layers of identity / Russell Jeung -- Gay Asian men in Los Angeles before the 1980s / Eric C. Wat -- Pilipino ka ba? Internet discussions in the Filipino community / Emily Noelle Ignacio -- Pacific Islander Americans and Asian American identity / Debbie Hippolite Wright and Paul Spickard -- "Eligible" to be Japanese American: multiraciality in basketball leagues and beauty pageants / Rebecca Chiyoko King -- Young Asian American professionals in Los Angeles: a community in transition / Pensri Ho -- Internalized stereotypes and shame: the struggles of 1.5-generation Korean Americans in Hawai'i / Mary Yu Danico -- Asian immigrant entrepreneurial children / Lisa Sun-Hee Park -- Imagining panethnic community and performing identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster monkey: his fake book / Karen Har-Yen Chow -- Addressing domestic violence and the South Asian community in the United States / Margaret Abraham -- Asian Pacific Americans and urban politics / Edward J.W. Park -- The political and philanthropic contexts for incorporating Asian American communities / Jiannbin Lee Shiao -- How public-policy reforms shape, and reveal the shape of, Asian America / Andrew Leong |
| Summary |
Once thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoization, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation. Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations around gender, class, sexuality, and generation reveal new processes as well as the demographic diversity of today's Asian American population. The case studies gathered here speak to the fluidity of these communities and to the need for new analytic approaches to account for the similarities and differences between them. Taken together, these essays forcefully argue that it is time to replace the outworn concept of a monolithic Asian America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Ethnic neighborhoods.
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Einwanderung
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Soziale Situation
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Ethnische Identität
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| SUBJECT |
Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
Asia.
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United States.
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USA.
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Asiaten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Võ, Linda Trinh, 1964- editor.
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Bonus, Rick, 1962- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781439901243 |
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1439901244 |
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