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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
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1 online resource (38 entries) ; digital files. |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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 -- |
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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. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
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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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Asian Americans -- History.
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
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Asian Americans -- Politics and government.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cheng, Cindy I-Fen, editor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0415738253 9780415738255 (DLC) 2016050569 xiv, 369 pages |
| ISBN |
9781787855748 electronic version |
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9781315817514 ebook |
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1315817519 ebook |
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9781317813910 |
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131781391X |
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9780415738255 alk. paper |
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0415738253 alk. paper |
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9781317813927 electronic book |
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1317813928 electronic book |
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