Asian American studies now : a critical reader /

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Asian American Studies Now represents the changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. The editors have selected essays for the significance of their contribution and t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, 1948-, Chen, Thomas C., 1982-, Lee, Robert G., 1947-, Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-, Zia, Helen, Eng, David L., 1967-, Han, Shinhee, 1963-, Kim, Elaine H., McGregor, Davianna, Omi, Michael, Winant, Howard, Lee, Erika, Shah, Nayan, 1966-, Weglyn, Michi, 1926-1999, Chan, Sucheng, Yuh, Ji-Yeon, Dorow, Sara K., Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar, Chiu, Monica, 1965-, Manalansan, Martin F., 1960-, Pérez, Hiram, Tang, Eric, 1974-, Dirlik, Arif, Prashad, Vijay, Leong, Andrew, Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963-, Omatsu, Glenn, Matsuda, Mari J., 1956-, Takagi, Dana Y., 1954-, Maira, Sunaina, 1969-, Ancheta, Angelo N., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Asian Americans > History.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
American literature > Asian American authors.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Conditions sociales.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
American literature > Asian American authors
Asian Americans
Asian Americans > Social conditions
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Situating Asian America; 1 When and Where I Enter; 2 Neither Black Nor White; 3 Detroit Blues: "Because of You, Motherfuckers"; 4 A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia; 5 Home is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals; 6 Recognizing Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty; 7 Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action; 8 Racism: From Domination to Hegemony; Two: History and Memory.
  • 9 The Chinese are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?: Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping10 Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown; 11 The Secret Munson Report; 12 Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights; 13 Out of the Shadows: Camptown Women, Military Brides, and Korean (American) Communities; 14 The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth; 15 Why China?: Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption; 16 The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s.
  • Three: Culture, Politics, and Society17 Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after Septemer 11th; 18 Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s-1990s; 19 Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down; 20 Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City; 21 How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods; 22 Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident; 23 Collateral Damage: Southeast Asian Poverty in the United States.
  • Four: Pedagogies and Possibilities24 Whither Asian American Studies?; 25 Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our Communities; 26 Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America; 27 Crafting Solidarities; 28 We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?; 29 The Struggle Over Parcel C: How Boston's Chinatown Won a Victory in the Fight Against Institutional Expansionism and Environmental Racism; 30 Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work; 31 Homes, Borders, and Possibilities; Biographical Notes.

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