A Companion To Asian American Studies

by Ono, Kent A.

• ISBN13: 9781405115957
• ISBN10: 1405115955
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Asian American Studies provides a snapshot of early debates within the field, as well as more contemporary essays that have helped transform the fieldrs"s intellectual terrain. Ranging from essays on class and sexuality to those focusing on literature, transnationality, and identity, this volume exemplifies the changing intellectual shape of Asian American Studies from its early periods to a more contemporary one. The anthology comprises 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Divided into sections covering psychology, history, literature, feminism, and more current work in the field, this volume is a summation of an important and increasingly vibrant field of study. It can be used in conjunction with Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, also edited by Kent A. Ono.

Author Biography

Kent A. Ono is Professor of Asian American Studies and Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Asian American Studies Program. He is co-author, with John Sloop, of Shifting Borders (2002), and co-editor of Enterprise Zones (1996).

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Acknowledgments	x
Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies	1	(16)
Kent A. Ono
Part I Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies
Psychology
1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health	17	(18)
Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue
2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America	35	(38)
Ben R. Tong
3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong's Criticisms	73	(10)
Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue
History
4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore	83	(8)
L. Ling-chi Hang
5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography	91	(17)
Sucheng Chan
6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore	108	(9)
Elaine H. Kim
7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan	117	(16)
Ronald Takaki
Literature and Feminism
8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake (excerpt)	133	(24)
Frank Chin
9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?	157
King-Kok Cheung
Part II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies
10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies	177	(19)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature	196	(19)
Elaine H. Kim
12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s	215	(11)
Keith Osajima
13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago's Filipino American Community since 1925	226	(9)
Barbara M. Posadas
14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn	235	(19)
Richard rung
15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences	254	(22)
Lisa Lowe
16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism	276	(20)
E. San Juan, Jr.
17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile	296	(23)
Oscar V. Campomanes
18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary	319	(13)
David Palumbo-Liu
19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation: Filipinos in the United States	332	(18)
Yen Le Espiritu
20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies	350	(20)
David L. Eng
Index	370