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Flashpoints for Asian American Studies /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- (writer of afterword.), Schlund-Vials, Cathy J., 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : crisis, conundrum, and critique / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
  • part I. Ethnic studies revisited
  • 1. Five decades later : reflections of a yellow power advocate turned poet / Amy Uyematsu
  • 2. Has Asian American studies failed? / Timothy Yu
  • 3. The racial studies project : Asian American studies and the Black Lives Matter campus / Nitasha Sharma
  • 4. Planned obsolescence, strategic resistance : ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and the neoliberal university / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
  • 5. Un-homing Asian American studies : refusals and the politics of commitment / Anita Mannur
  • part II. Displaced SUBJECTS
  • 6. No Muslims involved : letter to ethnic studies comrades / Junaid Rana
  • 7. Outsourcing, terror, and transnational South Asia / Asha Nadkarni
  • 8. Asian American studies and Palestine : the accidental and reluctant pioneer / Rajini Srikanth
  • 9. Against the yellowwashing of Israel : the BDS Movement and liberatory solidarities across settler states / Candace Fujikane
  • part III. Remapping Asia, recalibrating Asian America
  • 10. Transpacific entanglements / Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama
  • 11. Tensions, engagements, aspirations : the politics of knowledge production in Filipino American studies / Martin F. Manalansan IV
  • 12. Asian international students at U.S. universities in the post-2008 collapse era / Cynthia Wu
  • 13. Asians Are the new... what? / Kandice Chuh
  • part IV. Toward an Asian American ethic of care
  • 14. Asian Americans, disability, and the model minority myth / Yoonmee Chang
  • 15. Buddhist meditation as strategic embodiment : an optative reflection / Sharon A. Suh
  • 16. What is passed on (or, why we need sweetened condensed milk for the soul) / Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano
  • 17. An ethics of generosity / Min Hyoung Song
  • Afterword : becoming bilingual, or notes on numbness and feeling / Viet Thanh Nguyen.