Immigrant Acts On Asian American Cultural Politics

Name: Immigrant Acts On Asian American Cultural Politics
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ISBN: 9780822318644

ISBN-10: 0822318644

ISBN-13: 9780822318644

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lisa Lowe

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In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialised economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the U.S. nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture.Lowe argues that a national memory haunts the conception of Asian American, persisting beyond the repeal of individual laws and sustained by U.S. wars in Asia, in which the Asian is seen as the perpetual immigrant, as the "foreigner-within." In Immigrant Acts, she argues…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/21/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface



Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique



Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies



Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences



Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism



Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History



Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee



Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index