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1 online resource (191 pages) |
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Disoriented; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: A Meditation on Borders; Chapter 1: Dreaming in Black and White; Chapter 2: Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination; Part II: Developing a Critical Asian American Legal Studies; Bridge: Introduction to Part II; Chapter 3: Why We Need a Critical Asian American Legal Studies; Chapter 4: Narrative Space; Chapter 5: A Narrative Account of Asian America; Chapter 6: Mapping Asian American Legal Studies; Part III: From Identity Politics to Political Identities; Bridge: Introduction to Part III; Chapter 7: Reverse Racism! |
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Chapter 8: One AmericaPostscript; Notes; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American?. In Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State, Robert Chang examines the current discourse on race and law and the implications of postmodern theory and affirmative action-all of which have largely excluded Asian Americans-in order to develop a theory of critical Asian American legal studie |
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Print version record |
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Asian Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
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Asian Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814772393 |
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0814772390 |
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