Flashpoints for Asian American Studies /

Flashpoints for Asian American Studies / / ed. by Cathy Schlund-Vials.

Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Chang, Yoonmee,
Chuh, Kandice,
Fujikane, Candace,
Lowe, Lisa,
Lê Espiritu, Yên,
Manalansan, Martin F.,
Mannur, Anita,
Nadkarni, Asha,
Nguyen, Viet Thanh,
Rana, Junaid,
Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.,
Sharma, Nitasha,
Song, Min Hyoung,
Srikanth, Rajini,
Suh, Sharon A.,
Uyematsu, Amy,
Worrall-Soriano, Brandy Liên,
Wu, Cynthia,
Yoneyama, Lisa,
Yu, Timothy,
TeilnehmendeR:
Nguyen, Viet Thanh.
HerausgeberIn:
Schlund-Vials, Cathy,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique
  • Part I. Ethnic Studies Revisited
  • Chapter 1. Five De cades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet
  • Chapter 2. Has Asian American Studies Failed?
  • Chapter 3. The Racial Studies Proj ect: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus
  • Chapter 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Re sis tance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University
  • Chapter 5. Un - homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment
  • Part II. Displaced Subjects
  • Chapter 6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades
  • Chapter 7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia
  • Chapter 8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer
  • Chapter 9. Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States
  • Part III. Remapping Asia, Recalibrating Asian Amer i ca
  • Chapter 10. Transpacific Entanglements
  • Chapter 11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies
  • Chapter 12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era
  • Chapter 13. Asians Are the New . . . What?
  • Part IV. Toward an Asian American Ethic of Care
  • Chapter 14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth
  • Chapter 15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection
  • Chapter 16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul)
  • Chapter 17. An Ethics of Generosity
  • Afterword. Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Index

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