Asian American Studies Now

by Wu, Jean Yu-Wen Shen; Chen, Thomas C.

• ISBN13: 9780813545745
• ISBN10: 0813545749
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Asian American Studies Nowtruly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors, summarizes and defines the current shape of this rapidly changing field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, U.S. imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, social justice, and pedagogy.Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen have selected essays for the significance of their contribution to the field and their clarity, brevity, and accessibility to readers with little to no prior knowledge of Asian American studies. Featuring both reprints of seminal articles and groundbreaking texts, as well as bold new scholarship,Asian American Studies Nowaddresses the new circumstances, new communities, and new concerns that are reconstituting Asian America.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Situating Asian America

When and Where I Enter

Neither Black nor White

Detroit Blues

A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia

Home Is Where the Han Is

Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty

Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action

Racism

History and Memory

The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?

Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown

The Secret Munson Report

Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights

Out of the Shadows

The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth

Why China? Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption

The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation

Culture, Politics, and Society

Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization

Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s-1990s

Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Searching for Community

How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto

Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident, by A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker/Activist Va-Megn Thoj

Collateral Damage

Pedagogies and Possibilities

Whither Asian American Studies?

Freedom Schooling

Asians on the Rim

Crafting Solidarities

Will Not Be Used

The Struggle over Parcel C

Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work

Homes, Borders, and Possibilities

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