A Companion to Asian American Studies provides a snapshot of early debates within the field, as well as more contemporary essays that have helped transform the field's intellectual terrain. Ranging from essays on class and sexuality to those focusing on literature, transnationality, and identity, this volume exemplifies the changing intellectual shape of Asian American Studies from its early periods to a more contemporary one. The anthology comprises 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field.…mehr
A Companion to Asian American Studies provides a snapshot of early debates within the field, as well as more contemporary essays that have helped transform the field's intellectual terrain. Ranging from essays on class and sexuality to those focusing on literature, transnationality, and identity, this volume exemplifies the changing intellectual shape of Asian American Studies from its early periods to a more contemporary one. The anthology comprises 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Divided into sections covering psychology, history, literature, feminism, and more current work in the field, this volume is a summation of an important and increasingly vibrant field of study. It can be used in conjunction with Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, also edited by Kent A. Ono.
Kent A. Ono is Professor of Asian American Studies and Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Asian American Studies Program. He is co-author, with John Sloop, of Shifting Borders (2002), and co-editor of Enterprise Zones (1996).
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Preface viii
Acknowledgments x
Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies1 Kent A. Ono
Part I Defining Conversations in Asian AmericanStudies
Psychology
1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health 17 Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue
2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology ofChinese America 35 Ben R. Tong
3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply toTong's Criticisms 73 Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue
History
4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 83 L. Ling-chi Wang
5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography91 Sucheng Chan
6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 108 Elaine H. Kim
7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan117 Ronald Takaki
Literature and Feminism
8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake(excerpt) 133 Frank Chin
9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a ChineseAmerican Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? 157 King-Kok Cheung
Part II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies
10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: AnAnalysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177 Evelyn Nakano Glenn
11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature196 Elaine H. Kim
12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of thePopular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215 Keith Osajima
13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago'sFilipino American Community since 1925 226 Barbara M. Posadas
14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn235 Richard Fung
15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking AsianAmerican Differences 254 Lisa Lowe
16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the AsianAmerican Writer in Late Capitalism 276 E. San Juan, Jr.
17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile296 Oscar V. Campomanes
18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On theFunctions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary319 David Palumbo-Liu
19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation:Filipinos in the United States 332 Yen Le Espiritu
20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in AsianAmerican Studies 350 David L. Eng