Asian Americans Experiences and Perspectives

by Fong, Timothy P.; Shinagawa, Larry H.

• ISBN13: 9780137429660
• ISBN10: 0137429665
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-01-09
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Authoritative, current, and accessible yet scholastically rigorous this anthology of personal stories, timely essays, social science readings, and informative educational resources provides a social, economic, and cultural overview of Asian Americans, relates the experiences of Asian Americans, and explores a variety of contemporary social issues deeply affecting Asian Americans. Designed to encourage readers to thinkcriticallyabout social issues facing Asian Americans, it implicitly advances a multi-cultural, comparative, interdisciplinary approach to viewing the Asian American experience, and exposes readers to major theoretical perspectives as well as the latest statistical data on Asian Americans.Offers a wide variety of content material from various political, social, and cultural viewpoints on major contemporary social issues facing Asian Americans all written by experts in their fields. Readings cover topic areas such as: Identity and Community in the Shaping of Asian Americans; Asian American History: An Overview; The Contemporary Demography and Socio-Economic Conditions of Asian Americans; Theories about Asian Americans and American Race and Ethnic Relations; Critical Perspectives of the Asian American Experience; Auto-Biographical Experiences of Asian American; Asian Pacific Communities Past and Present; Educational Issues; Employment and Occupation; Popular Culture, Imagery, and Stereotypes; Identity, Family, and Culture; Race, Gender, and Culture; Political Empowerment of Asian Americans; and Future Directions of Asian Americans Educational Resources.For anyone interested in the issues, history, and experiences of Asian Pacific Americans.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(10)
Timothy P. Fong
Chapter 1 An Overview of the Asian American Experience	11	(29)
The History of Asians in America	13	(18)
Timothy P. Fong
Contemporary Asian American Sociodemographic Status	31	(9)
Larry H. Shinagawa
Chapter 2 Critical Perspectives	40	(46)
Asian American Historiography	42	(21)
Sucheng Chan
Is Yellow Black or White?	63	(16)
Gary Y. Okihiro
Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation	79	(7)
Shirley Hune
Chapter 3 Asian American Communities	86	(37)
The Acculturation Pattern of Orange County's Southeast Asian Refugees	88	(11)
Chor-Swang Ngin
Asian Americans in Enclaves--They Are Not One Community: New Modes of Asian American Settlement	99	(11)
Tom L. Chung
Filipinos Find Home in Daly City	110	(6)
Bert Eljera
Dixie's Global Village	116	(5)
Jeff Yang
Still Bitter After All These Years	121	(2)
Angela E. Oh
Chapter 4 Education Issues	123	(68)
We Could Shape It: Organizing for Asian Pacific American Student Empowerment	125	(16)
Peter Nein-Chu Kiang
Educating Asian Pacific Americans: Struggles and Progress	141	(28)
Shirley Hune
Kenyon S. Chan
Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?	169	(9)
Ronald Takaki
Being Different Together in the University Classroom: Multiracial Identity as Transgressive Education	178	(13)
Teresa Kay Williams
Cynthia L. Nakashima
George Kitahara Kich
G. Reginald Daniel
Chapter 5 Employment and Occupation	191	(52)
The Inventing and Reinventing of "Model Minorities": The Cultural Veil Obscuring Structural Sources of Inequality	193	(20)
Deborah Woo
Asian Americans in the Public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination	213	(10)
Pan Suk Kim
Gregory B. Lewis
San Francisco Guards Punished for Their Accents: Discrimination Spoken Here	223	(3)
Richard J. P. Cavosora
Immigrant Asian Women in Bay Area Garment Sweatshops: "After Sewing, Laundry, Cleaning and Cooking, I Have No Breath Left to Sing"	226	(17)
Miriam Ching Louie
Chapter 6 Popular Culture, Imagery, and Stereotypes	243	(32)
The Rape Fantasy: The Cheat and Broken Blossoms	245	(13)
Gina Marchetti
The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation	258	(6)
James S. Moy
Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck	264	(6)
Jessica Hagedorn
What Hollywood Should Know: A Call to Action from an Asian American Actor	270	(3)
Steve Park
A Disappointing "All-American Girl"	273	(2)
William Wong
Chapter 7 Families, Identities, and Culture	275	(53)
Chinese-American Families	277	(16)
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Stacey G. H. Yap
Vietnamese Families	293	(10)
Nazli Kibria
Invisible Americans: An Exploration of Indo-American Quality of Life	303	(17)
Snehendu B. Kar
Kevin Campbell
Armando Jimenez
Sangeeta R. Gupta
A False and Shattered Peace	320	(8)
Katherine Kam
Chapter 8 New Asian American Families, Identities, and Culture	328	(39)
Asian American Panethnicity and Intermarriage	330	(19)
Larry H. Shinagawa
Gin Y. Pang
All of the Above	349	(5)
Angelo Ragaza
A Fighter for Gay Rights	354	(5)
Carlos Mendez
Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons	359	(8)
Alice Y. Hom
Chapter 9 Asian American Political Empowerment	367	(43)
Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and Political Participation of Asian Pacific Immigrants	369	(19)
Paul Ong
Don Nakanishi
Asian Americans and Latinos in San Gabriel Valley, California: Ethnic Political Cooperation and Redistricting, 1990-1992	388	(10)
Leland T. Saito
P.R. Elections in N.Y.C: Effects of Preference Voting on Asian-American Participation	398	(3)
Tito Sinha
Foreign Money Is No Friend of Ours	401	(3)
Ling-Chi Wang
Asian Americans Under Glass: Where the Furor Over the President's Fundraising Has Gone Awry--and Racist	404	(5)
Phil Tajitsu Nash
Frank Wu
S.F. Rally Spotlights Kao Killing	409	(1)
Bert Eljera
Chapter 10 Future Directions in Asian American Studies	410	(36)
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences	412	(10)
Lisa Lowe
Postmodern Possibilities: Theoretical and Political Directions for Asian American Studies	422	(6)
Keith Osajima
Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads	428	(10)
Sau-Ling C. Wong
Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America	438	(8)
Dana Y. Takagi
Contributors	446