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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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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