Asian American studies now : a critical reader / / edited by Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xviii, 654 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • When and where I enter / Gary Y. Okihiro
  • Neither black nor white / Angelo N. Ancheta
  • Detroit blues: "Because of you motherfuckers" / Helen Zia
  • A dialogue on racial melancholia / David L. Eng and Shinhee Han
  • Home is where the Han is: a Korean American perspective on the Los Angeles upheavals / Elaine H. Kim
  • Recognizing native Hawaiians: a quest for sovereignty / Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor
  • Situating Asian Americans in the political discourse on affirmative action / Michael Omi and Dana Takagi
  • Racism: from domination to hegemony / Howard Winant
  • The Chinese are coming. How can we stop them? Chinese exclusion and the origins of American gatekeeping / Erika Lee
  • Public health and the mapping of Chinatown / Nayan Shah
  • The secret Munson Report / Michi Nishiura Weglyn
  • Asian American struggles for civil, political, economic, and social rights / Sucheng Chan
  • Out of the shadows: camptown women, military brides, and Korean (American) communities / Ji-Yeon Yuh
  • The Cold War origins of the model minority myth / Robert G. Lee
  • Why China? Identifying histories of transnational adoption / Sara Dorow
  • The "four prisons" and the movements of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu
  • Youth culture, citizenship, and globalization: South Asian Muslim youth in the United States after September 11th / Sunaina Maira
  • Asian immigrant women and global restructuring, 1970s-1990s / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
  • Medical, racist, and colonial constructions of power in Anne Fadiman's The spirit catches you and you fall down / Monica Chiu
  • Searching for community: Filipino gay men in New York City / Martin F. Manalansan IV
  • How to rehabilitate a mulatto: the iconography of Tiger Woods / Hiram Perez
  • Occult racism: the masking of race in the Hmong Hunter incident / a dialogue between anthropologist Louisa Schein and filmmaker/activist Va-Megn Thoj
  • Collateral damage: Southeast Asian poverty in the United States / Eric Tang
  • Whither Asian American studies? / Sucheng Chan
  • Freedom schooling: reconceptualizing Asian American studies for our communities / Glenn Omatsu
  • Asians on the rim: transnational capital and local community in the making of contemporary Asian America / Arif Dirlik
  • Crafting solidarities / Vijay Prashad
  • We will not be used: are Asian Americans the racial bourgeoisie? / Mari Matsuda
  • The struggle over parcel C: how Boston's Chinatown won a victory in the fight against institutional expansionism and environmental racism / Andrew Leong
  • Race matters in civic engagement work / Jean Y. Wu
  • Homes, borders, and possibilities / Yen Le Espiritu.