Asian American studies : a reader /

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Imprint:New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Description:xxviii, 568 p. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6164468
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Other authors / contributors:Wu, Jean Yu-wen Shen, 1948-
Song, Min, 1970-
ISBN:0813527252 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813527260 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. When and Where I Enter / Cary Okihiro
  • 2. The Sugar Kingdom: The Making of Plantation Hawai'i / Ronald Takaki
  • 3. The Gadar Party: Political Expression in an Immigrant Community / Jane Singh
  • 4. Hostility and Conflict / Sucheng Chan
  • 5. "The Eagle Seeks a Helpless Quarry": Chinatown, the Police, and the Press / K. Scott Wong
  • 6. Japanese on the West Coast / C. B. Munson
  • 7. Executive Order 9066
  • 8. Miscegenation and the Critique of Patriarchy in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction / Jinhua Emma Teng
  • 9. The Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese / Sui Sin Far
  • 10. The Legend of Miss Sasagawara / Hisaye Yamamoto
  • 11. Scent of Apples / Bienvenido Santos
  • 12. Changing Lives: World War II and the Postwar Years / Yen Le Espiritu
  • 13. Success Story of One Minority Group in U.S. / U.S. News and World Report
  • 14. The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu
  • 15. On the Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race / Michael Omi and Howard Winant
  • 16. A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State / Masao Miyoshi
  • 17. The Chinese and the American Labor Unions / Peter Kwong
  • 18. Not Asian, Black, or White? Reflections on South Asian American Racial Identity / Nazli Kibria
  • 19. What Must I Be? Asian Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Identity / Paul R. Spickard
  • 20. Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean-American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals / Elaine H. Kim
  • 21. The Vietnamese American Experience: From Dispersion to the Development of Post-Refugee Communities / Linda Trinh Vo
  • 22. The Woman Warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? / King-Kok Cheung
  • 23. Women in Exile: Gender Relations in the Asian Indian Community in the United States / Sayantani DasGupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta
  • 24. Looking from My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn / Richard Fung
  • 25. Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi
  • 26. Why We Need a Critical Asian American Legal Studies / Robert Chang
  • 27. Multiculturalism and Racial Stratifiation / Neil Gotanda
  • 28. (mis)Identifying Culture: Asian Women and the "Cultural Defense" / Leti Volpp
  • 29. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences / Lisa Lowe
  • 30. In Search of Filipino Writing: Reclaiming Whose "America"? / E. San Juan, Jr.
  • 31. The Fiction of Asian American Literature / Susan Koshy
  • 32. Ciphers / Ginu Kamani
  • 33. Tale of Apricot / Minh Duc Nguyen
  • 34. Three Stories / R. Zamora Linmark
  • 35. Chang / Sigrid Nunez.