Contemporary Asian America : a multidisciplinary reader /
"When Contemporary Asian America was first published, it exposed its readers to developments within the discipline, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to the more contemporary theoretical and practical issues facing Asian America at the turn of the twen...
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2007]
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary Asian America / Min Zhou, J.V. Gatewood 1
- Part I Claiming Visibility: The Asian American Movement and Politics
- 1 "On Strike!": San Francisco State College Strike, 1968-1969: The Role of Asian American Students / Karen Umemoto 25
- 2 "The Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu 56
- 3 Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen: Constructing Asian American Identity through Performing Blackness, 1969-1972 / Daryl J. Maeda 89
- Part II Traversing Borders: Contemporary Asian Immigration to the United States
- 4 Transforming Asian America: Globalization and Contemporary Immigration to the United States / Min Zhou, J.V. Gatewood 115
- 5 The Waves of War: Immigrants, Refugees, and New Americans from Southeast Asia / Carl L. Bankston III, Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo 139
- 6 Indians in North Carolina: Race, Class, and Culture in the Making of Immigrant Identity / Ajantha Subramanian 158
- Part III Ties That Bind: The Immigrant Family and the Ethnic Community
- 7 Southeast Asian Women in Lowell: Family Relations, Gender Roles, and Community Concerns / Tuyet-Lan Pho, Anne Mulvey 181
- 8 New Household Forms, Old Family Values: The Formation and Reproduction of the Filipino Transnational Family in Los Angeles / Rhacel Salazar Parrenas 206
- 9 Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New Patterns of Settlement among Asian Immigrants / Wei Li, Emily Skop 222
- Part IV Struggling to Get Ahead: Economy and Work
- 10 Striving for the American Dream: Struggle, Success, and Intergroup Conflict among Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs / Jennifer Lee 243
- 11 Gender, Migration, and Work: Filipina Health Care Professionals in the United States / Yen Le Espiritu 259
- 12 Mothers without Citizenship: Asian Immigrants and Refugees Negotiate Poverty and Hunger after Welfare Reform / Lynn H. Fujiwara 279
- Part V Sexuality in Asian America
- 13 Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons / Alice Y. Hom 303
- 14 Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City / Martin F. Manalansan IV 314
- Part VI Race and Asian American Identity
- 15 Are Asians Black? The Asian American Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Black/White Paradigm / Janine Young Kim 331
- 16 Are Asian Americans Becoming White? / Min Zhou 354
- 17 Diverging Identities: Ethnic and Religious Identities among Second-Generation Korean Americans / Helen J. Lee 360
- Part VII The Complexity of Ethnicity
- 18 Intermarriage and Multiracial Identification: The Asian American Experience and Implications for Changing Color Lines / Jennifer Lee, Frank D. Bean 381
- 19 What Must I Be? Asian Americans and the Question of Multiethnic Identity / Paul R. Spickard 393
- 20 Social Construction of Ethnicity versus Personal Experience: The Case of Afro-Amerasians / Teresa Kay Williams, Michael C. Thornton 408
- Part VIII Confronting Adversity: Racism, Stereotyping, and Exclusion
- 21 A Letter to My Sister / Lisa Park 425
- 22 "Racial Profiling" in the War on Terror: Cultural Citizenship and South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States / Sunaina Maira 431
- 23 Without a Trace: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Prime-Time Television / Christina B. Chin, Noriko Milman, Meera E. Deo, Jenny J. Lee, Nancy Wang Yuen 449
- Part IX Behind the Model Minority
- 24 The Cold War Construction of the Model Minority Myth / Robert G. Lee 469
- 25 From Model Minority to Economic Threat: Media Portrayals of Major League Baseball Pitchers Hideo Nomo and Hideki Irabu / David Tokiharu Mayeda 485
- Part X Multiplicity, Citizenship, and Interracial Politics
- 26 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences / Lisa Lowe 505
- 27 "Obnoxious to Their Very Nature": Asian Americans and Constitutional Citizenship / Leti Volpp 526
- 28 Interracial Politics: Asian Americans and Other Communities of Color / Claire Jean Kim, Taeku Lee 542.