The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies : : Autonomy and Representation in the University / / Mark Chiang.
Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmen...
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Chiang, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies : Autonomy and Representation in the University / Mark Chiang. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Institutionalization and the Crisis of Representation -- 1. From Cultural Politics to Cultural Capital -- 2. Contradictions in the Emergence of Ethnic Studies -- 3. Disciplinarity and the Political Identity of Asian American Studies -- 4. The Political Economy of Minority Literature -- 5. Asian American Cultural Capital and the Crisis of Legitimation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental advisory boards, planning and developing areas of the curriculum, university pressures eventually dictated their expulsion. At that moment in history, the intellectual work of the field was split off from its relation to the community at large, giving rise to the entire problematic of representation in the academic sphere.Even as the original objectives of the field have remained elusive, Asian American studies has nevertheless managed to establish itself in the university. Mark Chiang argues that the fundamental precondition of institutionalization within the university is the production of cultural capital, and that in the case of Asian American Studies (as well as other fields of minority studies), the accumulation of cultural capital has come primarily from the conversion of political capital. In this way, the definition of cultural capital becomes the primary terrain of political struggle in the university, and outlines the very conditions of possibility for political work within the academy. Beginning with the theoretical debates over identity politics and cultural nationalism, and working through the origins of ethnic studies in the Third World Strike, the formation of the Asian American literary field, and the Blu’s Hanging controversy, The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies articulates a new and innovative model of cultural and academic politics, illuminating the position of ethnic studies within the American university. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Asian Americans Ethnic identity. Asian Americans Politics and government. Asian Americans Study and teaching (Higher) United States Asiaten USA. Asian Americans Study and teaching (Higher). Autonomy. Education, Higher Political aspects United States. Ethnicity Political aspects United States. Ethnology Case studies Study and teaching (Higher) United States. Ethnology Study and teaching (Higher) United States Case studies. Minorities Case studies Study and teaching (Higher) United States. Minorities Study and teaching (Higher) United States Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions. bisacsh American. Asian. Capital. The. academic. articulates. cultural. ethnic. illuminating. innovative. model. politics. position. studies. university. within. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814717004 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814717004.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814790014 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814790014/original |
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