Asian American Studies Now

A Critical Reader

By: Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu (Editor), Thomas Chen (Editor)

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"Asian American Studies Now" truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors, summarizes and defines the current shape of this rapidly changing field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, U.S. imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, social justice, and pedagogy.

Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen have selected essays for the significance of their contribution to the field and their clarity, brevity, and accessibility to readers with little to no prior knowledge of Asian American studies. Featuring both reprints of seminal articles and groundbreaking texts, as well as bold new scholarship, "Asian American Studies Now" addresses the new circumstances, new communities, and new concerns that are reconstituting Asian America.

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"To read these essays is to be challenged again and again by some of the brightest minds and most sophisticated political sensibilities at work today. This volume is essential reading." -- Paul Spickard * author of Almost All Aliens *
"A very valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian American and ethnic studies. Highly recommended." * Choice *
"Pedagogically focused and structured, Asian American Studies Now underscores the present-day relevance of the field, given the contemporary realities of neoliberal globalization and the post-9/11 security state. Asian American Studies Now is a return to the field's community-driven roots."
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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Situating Asian America
When and Where I Enter	p. 3
Neither Black nor White	p. 21
Detroit Blues: “Because of You Motherfuckers”	p. 35
A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia	p. 55
Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals	p. 80
Recognizing Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty	p. 99
Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action	p. 118
Racism: From Domination to Hegemony	p. 126
History and Memory
The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them? Chinese Exclusion and the Origins of American Gatekeeping	p. 143
Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown	p. 168
The Secret Munson Report	p. 193
Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights	p. 213
Out of the Shadows: Camptown Women, Military Brides, and Korean (American) Communities	p. 239
The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth	p. 256
Why China? Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption	p. 272
The “Four Prisons” and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s	p. 298
Culture, Politics, and Society
Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after September 11th	p. 333
Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s–1990s	p. 354
Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down	p. 370
Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City	p. 393
How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto: The Iconography of Tiger Woods	p. 405
Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident: A Dialogue between Anthropologist	p. 423
Collateral Damage: Southeast Asian Poverty in the United States	p. 454
Pedagogies and Possibilities
Whither Asian American Studies?	p. 477
Freedom Schooling: Reconceptualizing Asian American Studies for Our Communities	p. 496
Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America	p. 515
Crafting Solidarities	p. 540
We Will Not Be Used: Are Asian Americans the Racial Bourgeoisie?	p. 558
The Struggle over Parcel C: How Boston's Chinatown Won a Victory in the Fight Against Institutional Expansionism and Environmental Racism	p. 565
Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work	p. 581
Homes, Borders, and Possibilities	p. 603
Biographical Notes	p. 623
Copyrights and Permissions	p. 627
Index	p. 631
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