Asian American studies : a reader / edited by Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Min Song.

Other author Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, 1948-
Other author Song, Min, 1970-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Descriptionxxviii, 568 pages ; 27 cm
Subjects
Asian Americans--History.
Asian Americans--Social conditions.
American literature--Asian American authors.

Contents When and where I enter / Gary Okihiro -- Sugar kingdom : the making of plantation Hawaií / Ronald Takaki -- Gadar party : political expression in an immigrant community / Jane Singh -- Hostility and conflict / Sucheng Chan -- "Eagle seeks a helpless quarry" : Chinatown, the police, and the press / K. Scott Wong -- Japanese on the West Coast / C.B. Munson -- Executive Order 9066 -- Miscegenation and the critique of patriarchy in turn-of-the-century fiction / Jinhua Emma Teng -- Story of one white woman who married a Chinese / Sui Sin Far -- Legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto -- Scent of apples / Bienvenido Santos -- Changing lives : World War II and the postwar years / Yen Le Espiritu -- Success story of one minority group in U.S. / U.S. News and World Report -- "Four prisons" and the movements of liberation : Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu -- On the theoretical status of the concept of race / Michael Omi and Howard Winant -- Borderless world? : from colonialism to transnationalism and the decline of the nation-state / Masao Miyoshi -- Chinese and the American labor unions / Peter Kwong -- Not Asian, black, or white? : reflections on South Asian American racial identity / Nazli Kibria -- What must I be? : Asian Americans and the question of multiethnic identity / Paul R. Spickard.
Contents Home is where the han is : a Korean-American perspective on the Los Angeles upheavels / Elaine H. Kim -- Vietnamese American experience : from dispersion to the development of post-refugee communities / Linda Trinh Võ -- Woman warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific : must a Chinese American critic choose between feminism and heroism? / King-Koh Cheung -- Women in exile : gender relations in the Asian Indian community in the United States / Sayantani DasGupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta -- Looking for my penis : the eroticized Asian in gay video porn / Richard Fung -- Maiden voyage : excursion into sexuality and identity politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi -- Why we need a critical Asian American legal studies / Robert Chang -- Multiculturalism and racial stratification / Neil Gotanda -- (Mis)identifying culture : Asian women and the "cultural defense" / Leti Volpp -- Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity : marking Asian American differences / Lisa Lowe -- In search of Filipino writing : reclaiming whose "America"? / E. San Juan Jr. -- Fiction of Asian American literature / Susan Koshy -- Ciphers / Ginu Kamani.
Contents Tale of apricot / Minh Duc Nguyen -- Three stories / R. Zamora Linmark -- Chang / Sigrid Nunez.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99024625
ISBN0813527252 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813527260 (paper : alk. paper)

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