Asian American Studies: A ReaderJean Yu-wen Shen Wu, Min Song This anthology is the perfect introduction to Asian American studies, as it both defines the field across disciplines and illuminates the centrality of the experience of Americans of South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Filipino ancestry to the study of American culture, history, politics, and society. The reader is organized into two parts: "The Documented Past" and "Social Issues and Literature." Within these broad divisions, the subjects covered include Chinatown stories, nativist reactions, exclusionism, citizenship, immigration, community growth, Asia American ethnicities, racial discourse and the Civil Rights movement, transnationalism, gender, refugees, anti-Asian American violence, legal battles, class polarization, and many more. Among the contributors are such noted scholars as Gary Okihiro, Michael Omi, Yen Le Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Ronald Takaki; writers such as Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Sigrid Nunez, and R. Zamora Linmark, as well as younger, emerging scholars in the field. |
Contents
EARLY IMMIGRATION PATTERNS | 3 |
THE MAKING OF PLANTATION | 21 |
POLITICAL EXPRESSION IN | 35 |
HOSTILITY AND CONFLICT Sucheng Chan | 47 |
CHINATOWN | 67 |
JAPANESE ON THE WEST COAST C B Munson | 84 |
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 | 93 |
MISCEGENATION AND THE CRITIQUE OF PATRIARCHY | 95 |
GENDER RELATIONS IN THE ASIAN | 324 |
THE EROTICIZED ASIAN | 338 |
EXCURSION INTO SEXUALITY | 354 |
CRITICAL RACE THEORY | 363 |
MULTICULTURALISM AND RACIAL STRATIFICATION | 379 |
ASIAN WOMEN | 391 |
THEORIZING ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE | 423 |
RECLAIMING WHOSE | 443 |
THE LEGEND OF MISS SASAGAWARA Hisaye Yamamoto | 124 |
WATERSHED YEARS | 141 |
SUCCESS STORY OF ONE MINORITY GROUP IN U | 158 |
SOCIAL ISSUES AND LITERATURES | 197 |
THE CHINESE AND THE AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS | 232 |
PANETHNICITY | 247 |
A KOREANAMERICAN | 270 |
FROM DISPERSION | 290 |
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