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    Asian American Studies Now
    A Critical Reader

    Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu (Edited by), Thomas Chen (Edited by), Jean Wu (Contributions by), Robert G Lee (Contributions by), Gary Okhiro (Contributions by), Helen Zia (Contributions by), David Eng (Contributions by), Shinhee Han (Contributions by), Elaine Kim (Contributions by), Davianna McGregor (Contributions by), Michael Omi (Contributions by), Howard Winant (Contributions by), Ericka Lee (Contributions by), Nayan Shah (Contributions by), Michi Weglyn (Contributions by), Suecheng Chan (Contributions by), Ji-Yeon Yuh (Contributions by), Sara Dorow (Contributions by), Rhacel Parrenas (Contributions by), Monica Chiu (Contributions by), Martin Manalansan (Contributions by), Hiram Perez (Contributions by), Eric Tang (Contributions by), Arif Dirlik (Contributions by), Vijay Prashad (Contributions by), Andrew Leong (Contributions by), Yen Le Espiritu (Contributions by), Glenn Omatsu (Contributions by), Mari Matsuda (Contributions by), Dana Y Takagi (Contributions by), Sunaina Maira (Contributions by), Angelo N Ancheta (Contributions by)

    9780813545752

    Paperback / softback, published 8 March 2010

    672 pages
    25.4 x 17.8 x 4.3 cm, 1.134 kg

    "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."
    (MELUS)

    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.

    Introduction
    Part I: Situating Asian America
    • When and Where I Enter
    • Neither Black nor White
    • Detroit Blues
    • A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia
    • Home Is Where the Han Is
    • Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty
    • Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
    • Racism
    Part II: History and Memory
    • The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?
    • Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown
    • The Secret Munson Report
    • Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights
    • Out of the Shadows
    • The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth
    • Why China? Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption
    • The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation
    Part III: Culture, Politics, and Society
    • Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization
    • Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s-1990s
    • Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
    • Searching for Community
    • How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto
    • Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident, by A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker/Activist Va-Megn Thoj
    • Collateral Damage
    Part IV: Pedagogies and Possibilities
    • Whither Asian American Studies?
    • Freedom Schooling
    • Asians on the Rim
    • Crafting Solidarities
    • Will Not Be Used
    • The Struggle over Parcel C
    • Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work
    • Homes, Borders, and Possibilities

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