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Title Asian American studies now : a critical reader / edited by Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 654 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Situating Asian America; 1 When and Where I Enter; 2 Neither Black Nor White; 3 Detroit Blues: "Because of You, Motherfuckers"; 4 A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia; 5 Home is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals; 6 Recognizing Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty; 7 Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action; 8 Racism: From Domination to Hegemony; Two: History and Memory
9 The Chinese are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?: Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping10 Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown; 11 The Secret Munson Report; 12 Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights; 13 Out of the Shadows: Camptown Women, Military Brides, and Korean (American) Communities; 14 The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth; 15 Why China?: Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption; 16 The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s
Three: Culture, Politics, and Society17 Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after Septemer 11th; 18 Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s-1990s; 19 Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; 20 Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City; 21 How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods; 22 Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident; 23 Collateral Damage: Southeast Asian Poverty in the United States
Four: Pedagogies and Possibilities24 Whither Asian American Studies?; 25 Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our Communities; 26 Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America; 27 Crafting Solidarities; 28 We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?; 29 The Struggle Over Parcel C: How Boston's Chinatown Won a Victory in the Fight Against Institutional Expansionism and Environmental Racism; 30 Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work; 31 Homes, Borders, and Possibilities; Biographical Notes
Summary Asian American Studies Now represents the changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. The editors have selected essays for the significance of their contribution and their clarity, brevity, and accessibility to readers with little to no prior knowledge of Asian American studies, and feature reprints of seminal articles and groundbreaking texts, as well as bold new scholarship
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Asian Americans -- History
Asian Americans -- Social conditions
American literature -- Asian American authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
American literature -- Asian American authors
Asian Americans
Asian Americans -- Social conditions
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, 1948-
Chen, Thomas C., 1982-
Lee, Robert G., 1947-
Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-
Zia, Helen.
Eng, David L., 1967-
Han, Shinhee, 1963-
Kim, Elaine H.
McGregor, Davianna.
Omi, Michael.
Winant, Howard.
Lee, Erika.
Shah, Nayan, 1966-
Weglyn, Michi, 1926-1999
Chan, Sucheng.
Yuh, Ji-Yeon.
Dorow, Sara K.
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar.
Chiu, Monica, 1965-
Manalansan, Martin F., 1960-
Pérez, Hiram.
Tang, Eric, 1974-
Dirlik, Arif.
Prashad, Vijay.
Leong, Andrew
Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963-
Omatsu, Glenn.
Matsuda, Mari J., 1956-
Takagi, Dana Y., 1954-
Maira, Sunaina, 1969-
Ancheta, Angelo N., 1960-
LC no. 2009000771
ISBN 9780813549330
0813549337