Contemporary Asian American communities : intersections and divergences
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Contemporary Asian American communities : intersections and divergences
（Asian American history and culture series）
Temple University Press, 2002
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Available at 17 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9781566399371
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Once thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoization, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation. Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations around gender, class, sexuality, and generation reveal new processes as well as the demographic diversity of today's Asian American population. The case studies gathered here speak to the fluidity of these communities and to the need for new analytic approaches to account for the similarities and differences between them. Taken together, these essays forcefully argue that it is time to replace the outworn concept of a monolithic Asian America. Author note: Linda Trinh Vo is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Rick Bonus, Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, is the author of "Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space" (Temple).
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Intersections and Divergences - Rick Bonus and Linda Trinh VoPart I: Communities in Transition: Spaces and Practices1. Asian and Latino Immigration and the Revitalization of Sunset Park, Brooklyn - Tarry Hum2. The Politics and Poetics of a Taiwanese Chinese American Identity - Eileen Chia-Ching Fung3. Southeast Asians in the House: Multiple Layers of Identity - Russell Jeung4. Gay Asian Men in Los Angeles before the 1980s - Eric C. Wat5. Pilipinokaba? Internet Discussions in the Filipino Community - Emily Noelle IgnacioPart II: Communities in Transformation: Identities and Generations6. Pacific Islander Americans and Asian American Identity - Debbie Hippolite Wright and Paul Spickard7. "Eligible" to be Japanese American: Multiraciality in Basket Ball Leagues and Beauty Pageants - Rebecca Chiyoko King8. Young Asian American Professionals in Los Angeles: A Community in Transition - Pensri Ho9. Internalized Stereotypes and Shame: The Struggles of 1.5-Generation Korean Americans in Hawai'i - Mary Yu Danico10. Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurial Children - Lisa Sun-Hee ParkPart III: Communities of Alternatives: Representations and Politics11. Imagining Panethnic Community and Performing Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book - Karen Har-Yen Chow12. Addressing Domestic Violence and the South Asian Community in the United States - Margaret Abraham13. Asian Pacific Americans and Urban Politics - Edward J. W. Park14. The Political and Philanthropic Contexts for Incorporating Asian American Communities - Jiannbin Lee Shiao15. How Public-Policy Reforms Shape, and Reveal the Shape of, Asian America - Andrew LeongAbout the ContributorsIndex
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: pbk ISBN 9781566399388
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Surveying the new contours of Asian America
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: On Intersections and Divergences - Rick Bonus and Linda Trinh VoPart I: Communities in Transition: Spaces and Practices1. Asian and Latino Immigration and the Revitalization of Sunset Park, Brooklyn - Tarry Hum2. The Politics and Poetics of a Taiwanese Chinese American Identity - Eileen Chia-Ching Fung3. Southeast Asians in the House: Multiple Layers of Identity - Russell Jeung4. Gay Asian Men in Los Angeles before the 1980s - Eric C. Wat5. Pilipinokaba? Internet Discussions in the Filipino Community - Emily Noelle IgnacioPart II: Communities in Transformation: Identities and Generations6. Pacific Islander Americans and Asian American Identity - Debbie Hippolite Wright and Paul Spickard7. "Eligible" to be Japanese American: Multiraciality in Basket Ball Leagues and Beauty Pageants - Rebecca Chiyoko King8. Young Asian American Professionals in Los Angeles: A Community in Transition - Pensri Ho9. Internalized Stereotypes and Shame: The Struggles of 1.5-Generation Korean Americans in Hawai'i - Mary Yu Danico10. Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurial Children - Lisa Sun-Hee ParkPart III: Communities of Alternatives: Representations and Politics11. Imagining Panethnic Community and Performing Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book - Karen Har-Yen Chow12. Addressing Domestic Violence and the South Asian Community in the United States - Margaret Abraham13. Asian Pacific Americans and Urban Politics - Edward J. W. Park14. The Political and Philanthropic Contexts for Incorporating Asian American Communities - Jiannbin Lee Shiao15. How Public-Policy Reforms Shape, and Reveal the Shape of, Asian America - Andrew LeongAbout the ContributorsIndex
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