Flashpoints for Asian American studies /
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 Flashpoint...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: crisis, conundrum, and critique / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
- Part I. Ethnic sound revisted
- Five decades later : reflections of a yellow power advocate turned poet / Amy Uyematsu
- Has Asian American studies failed? / Timothy Yu
- The ethnic studies project: Asian American studies and the Black Lives Matter campus / Nitasha Sharma
- Planned obsolescence, strategic resistance: ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and the neoliberal university / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
- Un-homing Asian American studies: refusals and the politics of commitment / Anita Mannur
- Part II: Displaced subjects
- No Muslims involved: letter to ethnic studies comrades / Junaid Rana
- Outsourcing, terror, and transnational South Asia / Asha Nadkarni
- Asian American studies and Palestine: the accidental and reluctant pioneer / Rajini Srikanth
- Against the yellowwashing of Israel: the BDS movement and liberatory solidarities across settler states / Candace Fujikane
- Part III: Remapping Aisa, recalibrating Asian America
- Transpacific entanglements / Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama
- Tensions, engagements, aspirations: the politics of knowledge production in Filipino American studies / Martin F. Manalansan IV
- Asian international students at U.S. universities in the post-2008 collapse era / Cynthia Wu
- Asians are the new... what? / Kandice Chuh
- Part IV: Toward an Asian American ethic of care
- Asian Americans, disability, and the model minority myth / Yoonmee Chang
- Buddhist meditation as strategic embodiment: an optative reflection / Sharon A. Suh
- What is passed on (or, why we need sweetened condensed milk for the soul) / Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano
- An ethics of generosity / Min Hyoung Song
- Afterword: becoming bilingual, or notes on numbness and feeling / Viet Thanh Nguyen.