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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection offers a bold and timely discussion of key debates in Asian American studies provoked by the institutionalization of Asian American studies in the neoliberal university. In a context of budget crises and also persistence of anti-Asian racism, the essays by a diverse group of scholars offer frank, sometimes autobiographical, reflections from the trenches about questions of incorporation, diversity management, interracial solidarity, public scholarship, and survival. This is a book I have been waiting to read, especially in the era of and Black Lives Matter and BDS activism and with Trump's election, as it offers important lessons for faculty, administrators, and students about how Asian American studies can resist the logics of multiculturalism and austerity." -- -Sunaina Maira University of California, Davis "Flashpoints for Asian American Studies offers an ambitious, bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale reconsideration of how Asian American studies operates inside and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an academic and political project. This volume presents a highly original reassessment from the inside of Asian American studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustainment." -- -Daryl Maeda University of Colorado, Boulder
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Part I Ethnic Studies Revisited
1. Five Decades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet
Amy Uyematsu
2. Has Asian American Studies Failed?
Timothy Yu 36
3. The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus
Nitasha Sharma
4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
5. Un-homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment
Anita Mannur
Part II Displaced Subjects
6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades
Junaid Rana
7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia
Asha Nadkarni
8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer
Rajini Srikanth
9. Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States
Candace Fujikane
Part III Remapping Asia, Recalibrating Asian America
10. Transpacific Entanglements
Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama
11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies
Martin F. Manalansan
12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era
Cynthia Wu
13. Asians Are the New . . . What?
Kandice Chuh
Part IV Toward an Asian American Ethic of Care
14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth
Yoonmee Chang
15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection
Sharon A. Suh
16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul)
Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano
17. An Ethics of Generosity
Min Hyoung Song
Afterword: Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Index
