Contemporary Asian America : A Multidisciplinary Reader

by Zhou, Min; Gatewood, James V.

• ISBN13: 9780814796917
• ISBN10: 0814796915
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

Contemporary Asian America is the first volume to integrate a broad range of multi-disciplinary research on the ways in which the intersection of Asian immigration, community development, and socialization affect Asian American communities. It exposes its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the century's end.The volume includes 13 sections, and covers such topics as immigration, economic life, family and community, spiritual practices, gender, sexuality, racism and anti-Asian violence, the new second generation, youth gangs, domestic violence, visual culture, and theory. Contemporary Asian America provides an expansive introduction to the central readings in Asian America and Asian American Studies, presenting a grounded theoretical orientation to the discipline and framing key historical, cultural, economic, and social themes within a social science context.Contributors include Shirley Hune, Dorinne Kondo, Lisa Lowe, Pyong Gap Min, Don Nakanishi, Gary Y. Okihiro, Ruben Rumbaut, and Ronald Takaki, among others.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary Asian America	1	(48)
Min Zhou
James V. Gatewood
PART I: Claiming Visibility: The Asian American Movement
``On Strike!'' San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-1969: The Role of Asian American Students	49	(31)
Karen Umemoto
The ``Four Prisons'' and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s	80	(37)
Glenn Omatsu
Study Questions	113	(1)
Suggested Readings	113	(1)
Films	114	(3)
PART II: Making History: The Asian American Experience
From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling	117	(15)
Ronald Takaki
When and Where I Enter	132	(23)
Gary Y. Okihiro
Study Questions	150	(1)
Suggested Readings	150	(1)
Films	151	(4)
PART III: Traversing Borders: Contemporary Asian Immigration to the United States
U.S. Immigration Policies and Asian Migration	155	(20)
Paul Ong
John M. Liu
Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans	175	(32)
Ruben G. Rumbaut
The Social Construction of Gendered Migration from the Philippines	207	(26)
James A. Tyner
Study Questions	229	(1)
Suggested Readings	229	(1)
Films	230	(3)
PART IV: Struggling to Get Ahead: Life and Work in Asian America
Life and Work in the Inner City	233	(21)
Paul Ong
Karen Umemoto
Work and Its Place in the Lives of Immigrant Women: Garment Workers in New York City's Chinatown	254	(24)
Min Zhou
Regina Nordquist
Striving for the American Dream: Struggle, Success, and Intergroup Conflict among Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs	278	(21)
Jennifer Lee
Study Questions	295	(1)
Suggested Readings	295	(1)
Films	296	(3)
PART V: Ties That Bind: The Asian American Family and Community
Children of Inmates: The Effects of the Redress Movement among Third-Generation Japanese Americans	299	(16)
Yasuko I. Takezawa
Social Capital in Chinatown: The Role of Community-Based Organizations-Based Organizations and Families in the Adaptation of the Younger Generation	315	(21)
Min Zhou
New Household Forms, Old Family Values: The Formation and Reproduction of the Filipino Transnational Family in Los Angeles	336	(21)
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Study Questions	352	(1)
Suggested Readings	352	(1)
Films	353	(4)
PART VI: Keeping the Faith: Spiritual Practices among Asian Americans
Sangha of the South: Laotian Buddhism and Social Adaptation in Rural Louisiana	357	(15)
Carl L. Bankston III
The Structure and Social Functions of Korean Immigrant Churches in the United States	372	(20)
Pyong Gap Min
Asian Indian and Pakistani Religions in the United States	392	(21)
Raymond Brady Williams
Study Questions	408	(1)
Suggested Readings	409	(1)
Films	409	(4)
PART VII: Women in Asian America
Doing Gender with a Feminist Gaze: Toward a Historical Reconstruction of Asian America	413	(18)
Shirley Hune
Power, Patriarchy, and Gender Conflict in the Vietnamese Immigrant Community	431	(18)
Nazli Kibria
Study Questions	444	(1)
Suggested Readings	444	(1)
Films	445	(4)
PART VIII: The Construction and Deconstruction of the ``Model Minority''
Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s	449	(10)
Keith Osajima
The ``Model Minority'' Deconstructed	459	(24)
Lucie Cheng
Philip Q. Yang
A Quota on Excellence? The Asian American Admissions Debate	483	(18)
Don T. Nakanishi
Study Questions	497	(1)
Suggested Readings	497	(1)
Films	498	(3)
PART IX: Confronting Adversity: Racism, Exclusion, and the Burden of Double Standards
The Murder of Navroze Mody: Race, Violence, and the Search for Order	501	(17)
Deborah N. Misir
Race, Class, Citizenship, and Extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 Campaign Finance Scandal	518	(17)
L. Ling-chi Wang
A Letter to My Sister	535	(12)
Lisa Park
Study Questions	542	(1)
Suggested Readings	543	(1)
Films	543	(4)
PART X: Queering Asian America
Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America	547	(14)
Dana Y. Takagi
Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons	561	(11)
Alice Y. Hom
Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City	572	(17)
Martin F. Manalansan IV
Study Questions	584	(1)
Suggested Readings	584	(1)
Films	585	(4)
PART XI: The Complexity of Ethnic Identity: Interracial Marriage and Multiethnic Asian Americans
In Search of the Right Spouse: Interracial Marriage among Chinese and Japanese Americans	589	(17)
Colleen Fong
Judy Yung
What Must I Be? Asian Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Indentity	606	(21)
Paul R. Spickard
Study Questions	622	(1)
Suggested Readings	622	(1)
Films	623	(4)
PART XII: Visual Culture
Is There an Asian American Aesthetics?	627	(9)
Gargi Chatterjee
Augie Tam
Art, Activism, Asia, and Asian Americans	636	(31)
Dorinne Kondo
Study Questions	663	(1)
Suggested Readings	663	(1)
Films	664	(3)
PART XIII: Mapping the Terrain: New Paradigms in Asian American Studies
Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation	667	(10)
Shirley Hune
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences	677	(24)
Lisa Lowe
Study Questions	698	(1)
Suggested Readings	698	(1)
Film	699	(2)
Contributors	701	(2)
Permissions	703	(4)
Index	707