Contemporary Asian America (third edition) : : A Multidisciplinary Reader / / ed. by Anthony Christian Ocampo, Min Zhou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bankston, Carl L.,; Bean, Frank D.,; Bucceri, Jennifer,; Corpus, Melissa J. H.,; Dhingra, Pawan,; Eckstein, Susan,; Espiritu, Yen Le,; Gatewood, J. V.,; Han, C. Winter,; Hernandez, Xavier,; Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette,; Junn, Jane,; Kim, Janine Young,; Kim, Nadia Y.,; Lee, Jennifer,; Lee, Taeku,; Leung, Maxwell,; Li, Wei,; Lin, Annie I.,; Lowe, Lisa,; Maira, Sunaina,; Nadal, Kevin L.,; Nelson, Kim Park,; Ng, Jennifer,; Nguyen, Thanh-Nghi,; Ocampo, Anthony C.,; Omatsu, Glenn,; Pak, Yoon,; Park, Lisa Sun-Hee,; Park, Lisa,; Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar,; Poon, Oiyan,; Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick,; Sihite, Ester,; Skop, Emily,; Sue, Derald Wing,; Torino, Gina C.,; Umemoto, Karen,; Wong, Janelle,; Xiong, Yang Sao,; Yu, Wan,; Zhou, Min,
• HerausgeberIn: Ocampo, Anthony Christian,; Zhou, Min,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studiesWho are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the “model minority” or “forever foreigner,” most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation’s fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the “Asian American” umbrella, they have tirelessly carved out their presence in the labor market, education, politics, and pop culture. Many times, they have done so in the face of racism, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Today, contemporary Asian America has emerged as an incredibly diverse population, with each segment of the community facing its unique challenges. When Contemporary Asian America was first published in 2000, it exposed its readers to the formation and development of Asian American studies as an academic field of study, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the systematic inquiry into more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the century’s end. It was the first volume to integrate a broad range of interdisciplinary research and approaches from a social science perspective to assess the effects of immigration, community development, and socialization on Asian American communities. This updated third edition discusses the impact of September 11 on Asian American identity and citizenship; the continued influence of globalization on past and present waves of immigration; and the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class on the experiences of Asian immigrants and their children. The volume also provides study questions and recommended supplementary readings and documentary films. This critical text offers a broad overview of Asian American studies and the current state of Asian America.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION -- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION -- Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary Asian America -- PART I.Claiming Visibility: The Asian American Movement -- 1. “On Strike!” San Francisco State College Strike, 1968–1969: The Role of Asian American Students -- 2. The “Four Prisons” and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s -- PART II. Traversing Borders: Contemporary Asian Immigration to the United States -- 3. Contemporary Asian America: Immigration, Demographic Transformation, and Ethnic Formation -- 4. The Waves of War: Refugees, Immigrants, and New Americans from Southeast Asia -- PART III. Ties That Bind: The Immigrant Family and the Ethnic Community -- 5. New Household Forms, Old Family Values: The Formation and Reproduction of the Filipino Transnational Family in Los Angeles -- 6. The Reorganization of Hmong American Families in Response to Poverty -- 7. Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New Patterns of Settlement among Asian Immigrants -- PART IV. Struggling to Get Ahead: Economy and Work -- 8. Just Getting a Job Is Not Enough: How Indian Americans Navigate the Workplace -- 9. Gender, Migration, and Work: Filipina Health Care Professionals to the United States -- 10. The Making and Transnationalization of an Ethnic Niche: Vietnamese Manicurists -- PART V. Sexuality in Asian America -- 11. “Tomboys” and “Baklas”: Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Filipino Americans -- 12. No Fats, Femmes, or Asians: The Utility of Critical Race Theory in Examining the Role of Gay Stock Stories in the Marginalization of Gay Asian Men -- PART VI. Race and Asian American Identity -- 13. Are Asians Black? The Asian American Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Paradigm -- 14. Are Second-Generation Filipinos “Becoming” Asian American or Latino? Historical Colonialism, Culture, and Panethnicity -- 15. Are Asian Americans Becoming White? -- PART VII. Intermarriages and Multiracial Ethnicity -- 16. Are We “Postracial”? Intermarriage, Multiracial Identification, and Changing Color Lines -- 17. Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transnational Adoption -- PART VIII. Confronting Adversity: Racism, Stereotyping, and Exclusion -- 18. A Letter to My Sister and a Twenty-Five-Year Anniversary -- 19. “Racial Profiling” in the War on Terror: Cultural Citizenship and South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States -- 20. Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience -- PART IX. Behind the Model Minority -- 21. Jeremy Lin’s Model Minority Problem -- 22. Continuing Significance of the Model Minority Myth: The Second Generation -- 23. Racial Anxieties, Uncertainties, and Misinformation: A Complex Picture of Asian Americans and Selective College Admissions -- PART X. Multiplicity and Interracial Politics -- 24. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences -- 25. Critical Thoughts on Asian American Assimilation in the Whitening Literature -- 26. Beyond the Perpetual Foreigner and Model Minority Stereotypes: A Critical Examination of How Asian Americans Are Framed -- 27. Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence from the 2008 National Asian American Survey -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX