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The Routledge handbook of Asian American studies / edited by Cindy I-Fen Cheng.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2020Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (38 entries) ; digital filesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781787855748
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 973/.0495 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.A75 R687 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On reclaiming the political project of Asian American studies / Cindy I-Fen Cheng -- pt. 1. Shifting paradigms: On racial stereotyping / Leslie Bow; On the Asian American question / Joshua Chambers-Letson; Postcolonialism and Asian American studies / Erin Suzuki; Diaspora as frame and object of analysis in Asian American studies / Martin Joseph Ponce; American antipodes: Anna Kazumi Stahl's Flores de un solo día / Michelle Har Kim -- pt. 2. War, colonization, and U.S. imperialism: The Vietnam War and the "good refugee" / Yen Le Espiritu; Refugee memoryscape: the rhetoric of Hmong refugee writing / Chong A. Moua; Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; Asian settler colonialism's histories / Bianca Kai Isaki; The strange career of the Filipino "national": empire, citizenship, and racial statecraft / Rick Baldoz; The Arab American experience: from invisibility to heightened visibility / Louise Cainkar -- pt. 3. Globalization, global restructuring, and the question of national belongings: Popular music, globalization, and Asian/America / Christine Bacareza Balance; The sports loyalty test: Asian athletes and Asian American cultural politics / Rachael Miyung Joo; Jeremy Lin, global Asian American / Timothy Yu; Beneath each layer of cloth: Chinese women in the New York City garment industry / Margaret M. Chin --
pt. 4: Representations within and across nations: The globality of Af-Pak: U.S. Empire and the Muslim problem / Junaid Rana; The Japanese American transnational generation: rethinking the spatial and conceptual boundaries of Asian America / Michael Jin; Migration, citizenship, and sexuality in Asian/America / Yu-Fang Cho; From noxious quarters to affluent ethno-burbs: race and space in Asian American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee; The invention of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu -- pt. 5: Social change and political participation: Asian American studies and/as digital humanities / Lori Kido Lopez and Konrad Ng; Asian American queer and trans activisms / Jian Neo Chen; "Other": reconsidering Asian exclusion and immigrant rights / Sujani K. Reddy; Afro-Asian solidarity through time and space: roads taken and not taken / Yuichiro Onishi; The political participation of Asian Americans / Pei-te Lien.
Abstract: This volume engages contemporary research, which draws on new archives, art, literature, film, and music, to examine how Asian Americans are redefining their national identities, and to show how race interacts with gender, sexuality, class, and the built environment to reveal the diversity of the United States.
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Ebook Ebook NMC Library Credo Reference Online E184.A75 R687 2017 EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available online - NMC Login required 518426

Includes bibliographical references.

List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On reclaiming the political project of Asian American studies / Cindy I-Fen Cheng -- pt. 1. Shifting paradigms: On racial stereotyping / Leslie Bow; On the Asian American question / Joshua Chambers-Letson; Postcolonialism and Asian American studies / Erin Suzuki; Diaspora as frame and object of analysis in Asian American studies / Martin Joseph Ponce; American antipodes: Anna Kazumi Stahl's Flores de un solo día / Michelle Har Kim -- pt. 2. War, colonization, and U.S. imperialism: The Vietnam War and the "good refugee" / Yen Le Espiritu; Refugee memoryscape: the rhetoric of Hmong refugee writing / Chong A. Moua; Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; Asian settler colonialism's histories / Bianca Kai Isaki; The strange career of the Filipino "national": empire, citizenship, and racial statecraft / Rick Baldoz; The Arab American experience: from invisibility to heightened visibility / Louise Cainkar -- pt. 3. Globalization, global restructuring, and the question of national belongings: Popular music, globalization, and Asian/America / Christine Bacareza Balance; The sports loyalty test: Asian athletes and Asian American cultural politics / Rachael Miyung Joo; Jeremy Lin, global Asian American / Timothy Yu; Beneath each layer of cloth: Chinese women in the New York City garment industry / Margaret M. Chin --

pt. 4: Representations within and across nations: The globality of Af-Pak: U.S. Empire and the Muslim problem / Junaid Rana; The Japanese American transnational generation: rethinking the spatial and conceptual boundaries of Asian America / Michael Jin; Migration, citizenship, and sexuality in Asian/America / Yu-Fang Cho; From noxious quarters to affluent ethno-burbs: race and space in Asian American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee; The invention of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu -- pt. 5: Social change and political participation: Asian American studies and/as digital humanities / Lori Kido Lopez and Konrad Ng; Asian American queer and trans activisms / Jian Neo Chen; "Other": reconsidering Asian exclusion and immigrant rights / Sujani K. Reddy; Afro-Asian solidarity through time and space: roads taken and not taken / Yuichiro Onishi; The political participation of Asian Americans / Pei-te Lien.

This volume engages contemporary research, which draws on new archives, art, literature, film, and music, to examine how Asian Americans are redefining their national identities, and to show how race interacts with gender, sexuality, class, and the built environment to reveal the diversity of the United States.

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