Flashpoints for Asian American studies

Author(s)

• Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.
• Nguyen, Viet Thanh

Bibliographic Information

Flashpoints for Asian American studies

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, editor ; afterword by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Fordham University Press, 2018

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection that considers-almost fifty years after its student protest founding--the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and-more provocatively, has not-responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.

Table of Contents

Introduction: 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 Yen Le 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 Lien 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

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Details

• NCID: BB30333681
• ISBN:
  • 9780823278619
• LCCN: 2017025497
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 319 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E184.A75
  • DC23 : 378.1/98295073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Asian Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History
  • LCSH : Asian Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 21st century