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Book SynopsisContains essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. This title covers psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness. It features an introduction of the field.
Trade Review“An extremely helpful collection for teaching that locates the field’s beginnings and, importantly, charts its intellectual power and influence.”
Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
Table of ContentsPreface viii
Acknowledgments x
Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies 1
Kent A. Ono
Part I Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies
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 of Chinese America 35
Ben R. Tong
3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong’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 Historiography 91
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 Chan 117
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 Chinese American 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: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature 196
Elaine H. Kim
12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215
Keith Osajima
13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago’s Filipino American Community since 1925 226
Barbara M. Posadas
14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn 235
Richard Fung
15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences 254
Lisa Lowe
16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism 276
E. San Juan, Jr.
17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile 296
Oscar V. Campomanes
18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary 319
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 Asian American Studies 350
David L. Eng
Index 370
