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Asian American Studies Now A Critical Reader

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ISBN-10: 0813545757

ISBN-13: 9780813545752

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu, Suecheng Chan, Monica Chiu, Arif Dirlik, Sara Dorow

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List price: $61.60
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English

Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu is a senior lecturer in the American studies program at Tufts University and the coeditor ofAsian American Studies: A Reader(Rutgers University Press).

MONICA CHIU is associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire specializing in Asian American literature, criticism, film, popular culture, and twentieth-century American literature. She is the author of Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women (2004).

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Situating Asian America
When and Where I Enter
Neither Black nor White
Detroit Blues: “Because of You Motherfuckers”
A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia
Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals
Recognizing Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
Racism: From Domination to Hegemony
History and Memory
The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping
Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown
The Secret Munson Report
Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights
Out of the Shadows: Camptown Women, Military Brides, and Korean (American) Communities
The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth
Why China? Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption
The “Four Prisons” and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s
Culture, Politics, and Society
Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after September 11th
Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s–1990s
Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City
How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods
Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident: A Dialogue between Anthropologist
Collateral Damage: Southeast Asian Poverty in the United States
Pedagogies and Possibilities
Whither Asian American Studies?
Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our Communities
Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America
Crafting Solidarities
We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?
The Struggle over Parcel C: How Boston's Chinatown Won a Victory in the Fight Against Institutional Expansionism and Environmental Racism
Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work
Homes, Borders, and Possibilities
Biographical Notes
Copyrights and Permissions
Index