Flashpoints for Asian American studies
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Flashpoints for Asian American studies
Fordham University Press, 2018
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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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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