Full Description
Asian American Studies Now truly 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 Now addresses the new circumstances, new communities, and new concerns that are reconstituting Asian America.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: 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
Part II: 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
Part III: 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
Part IV: 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
