Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials

Fordham University Press, 2018 - Education - 319 pages

Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection that considers-almost fifty years after its student protest founding--the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and--more provocatively, has not--responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.

About the author

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (UConn). She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (UConn). She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
• Editor: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
• Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2018
• ISBN: 0823278603, 9780823278602
• Length: 319 pages
• Subjects: Education / Schools / Levels / Higher; History / Social History; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General