Cultural compass : ethnographic explorations of Asian America
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Cultural compass : ethnographic explorations of Asian America
（Asian American history and culture series）
Temple University Press, 2000
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアジア専攻
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Description
Cultural Compass re-writes the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethnic and citizen identity, contributors reconfigure ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the United States. In these eleven essays, scholars in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies reconsider traditional models for ethnographic research. Drawing upon recent theoretical discussions and methodological innovations, the contributors explore the construction and displacement of self, community, and home integral to Asian American cultural journeys in the late twentieth century. Some discuss the unique situation of doing ethnographic work \u0022at home\u0022 -- that is researching one's own ethnic group or another group with Asian America. Others draw on rich and diverse field experiences. Whether they are doing homework or fieldwork, contributors reflect on the ways that particular matters of identity -- gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, age -- play out between researchers and informants.
Individual essays and the book as a whole challenge the notion of a monolithic, spatially bounded Asian American community, pointing the way to multiple sites of political struggle, cultural critique, and social change.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Writing Asian America: Locating the Field and the Home 1. Performing Ethnography in Asian American Communities: Beyond the Insider-versus-Outsider Perspective --Linda Trinh Vo 2. Researching One's Own: Negotiating Co-ethnicity in the Field --Miliann Kang 3. Chineseness across Borders: A Multi-Sited Investigation of Chinese Diaspora Identities --Andrea Louie Part II: The Sites of Identity and Community 4. Of Palengke and Beauty Pageants: Filipino American-Style Politics in Southern California --Rick Bonus 5. Making the Biopolitical Subject: Cambodian Immigrants, Refugee Medicine and Cultural Citizenship in California --Aihwa Ong 6. Everyday Identity Work at an Asian Pacific AIDS Organization --Gina Masequesmay 7. Betrayal, Class Fantasies and the Filipino Nation in Daly City --Benito M. Vergara, Jr. 8. Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conception of Marriage and Gender in the Korean American Community --Kyeyoung Park Part III: Beyond Asian America and Back 9. Identity in the Diaspora: Surprising Voices --Karen Leonard 10. Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism --Louisa Schein 11. Cultural Encompass: Looking for Direction in the Asian American Comic Book --Timothy Keeyen Choy Contributors
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: pbk ISBN 9781566397735
Description
Cultural Compass re-writes the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethnic and citizen identity, contributors reconfigure ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the United States. In these eleven essays, scholars in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies reconsider traditional models for ethnographic research. Drawing upon recent theoretical discussions and methodological innovations, the contributors explore the construction and displacement of self, community, and home integral to Asian American cultural journeys in the late twentieth century. Some discuss the unique situation of doing ethnographic work \u0022at home\u0022 -- that is researching one's own ethnic group or another group with Asian America. Others draw on rich and diverse field experiences. Whether they are doing homework or fieldwork, contributors reflect on the ways that particular matters of identity -- gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, age -- play out between researchers and informants.
Individual essays and the book as a whole challenge the notion of a monolithic, spatially bounded Asian American community, pointing the way to multiple sites of political struggle, cultural critique, and social change.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Writing Asian America: Locating the Field and the Home 1. Performing Ethnography in Asian American Communities: Beyond the Insider-versus-Outsider Perspective Linda Trinh Vo 2. Researching One's Own: Negotiating Co-ethnicity in the Field Miliann Kang 3. Chineseness across Borders: A Multi-Sited Investigation of Chinese Diaspora Identities Andrea Louie Part II: The Sites of Identity and Community 4. Of Palengke and Beauty Pageants: Filipino American-Style Politics in Southern California Rick Bonus 5. Making the Biopolitical Subject: Cambodian Immigrants, Refugee Medicine and Cultural Citizenship in California Aihwa Ong 6. Everyday Identity Work at an Asian Pacific AIDS Organization Gina Masequesmay 7. Betrayal, Class Fantasies and the Filipino Nation in Daly City Benito M. Vergara, Jr. 8. Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conception of Marriage and Gender in the Korean American Community Kyeyoung Park Part III: Beyond Asian America and Back 9. Identity in the Diaspora: Surprising Voices Karen Leonard 10. Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism Louisa Schein 11. Cultural Encompass: Looking for Direction in the Asian American Comic Book Timothy Keeyen Choy Contributors
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