Disoriented : : Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State / / Robert Chang.

Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? In Dis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]
©2000
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Critical America ; 11
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Becoming Asian American
  • Part I. A Meditation on Borders
  • 1. Dreaming in Black and White
  • 2. Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination
  • Part II. Developing a Critical Asian American Legal Studies
  • Bridge
  • 3. Why We Need a Critical Asian American Legal Studies
  • 4. Narrative Space
  • 5. A Narrative Account of Asian America
  • 6. Mapping Asian American Legal Studies
  • Part III. From Identity Politics to Political Identities
  • Bridge
  • 7. Reverse Racism!
  • 8. One America
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author