Overview

Across the Pacific explores in descriptive and critical ways how transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international context of the Pacific Rim. In eight ground-breaking essays, contributors address new meanings and practices of Asian Americans in the global transformation of the post-Civil Rights, post-Cold War, postmodern and postcolonial era. Asian Americans have always been a trans-Pacific community and are now more than ever. Since the changes in immigration laws in 1965, after decades of exclusion from the United States, Asians are once more immigrating to the U.S. Entering the U.S. upon the culmination of the Civil Rights movement, Asians becoming Asian Americans have joined a self-consciously multicultural society. Asian economies have roared onto the world stage, creating new markets while circulating capital and labor at an unprecedented scale and intensity, thereby helping drive the forces of modern globalization.Considering issues of diaspora, transmigrancy, assimilation, institutionalized racism, and community, Across the Pacific offers essays on such topics as the impact of the new migrations on Asian American subjectivity and politics, the role of Asian Americans in Pacific rim economies, and cultural expressions of dislocation among contemporary Asian American writers. It asks: If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises, the perils? Author note: Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Author:   Evelyn Hu-Dehart, E
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.327kg
ISBN:  

9781566398244

ISBN 10:   156639824
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   03 August 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Foreword: Vishakha N. Desai Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: Asian American Formations in the Age of Globalization Evelyn Hu-DeHart Chapter 2 Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America Arif Dirlik Chapter 3 Chinese Americans in the Formation of the Pacific Regional Economy Lucie Cheng Chapter 4 Asian American Economic Engagement: Vietnam Case Study Le Anh Tu Packard Chapter 5 Asian American Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy Paul Y. Watanabe Chapter 6 Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigration and American Orientalism Neil Gotanda Chapter 7 Asian Americans at the Intersection of International and Domestic Tensions: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Chapter 8 Inventing the Earth: The Notion of Home in Asian American Literature Luis H. Francia About the Contributors

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""[These essays] should provide some answers to the field of Asian American studies, which has been both energized and troubled by recent trends toward transnationalism and diasporic studies, and which in other ways has been internationalizing its focus. They should also address some questions for the field of Asian studies, whose practitioners are now wondering out loud how, precisely by internationalizing themselves, Asian Americans, given their biculturalism and transnationality, might help frame new approaches to the study of Asia and its subjects."" --Evelyn Hu-DeHart, from the Introduction

[These essays] should provide some answers to the field of Asian American studies, which has been both energized and troubled by recent trends toward transnationalism and diasporic studies, and which in other ways has been internationalizing its focus. They should also address some questions for the field of Asian studies, whose practitioners are now wondering out loud how, precisely by internationalizing themselves, Asian Americans, given their biculturalism and transnationality, might help frame new approaches to the study of Asia and its subjects. --Evelyn Hu-DeHart, from the Introduction

Author Information

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies, an d Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Contributors: Lucie Cheng, Arif Dirlik, Luis Francia, Neil Gotanda, Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, Le Anh Tu Packard, and Paul Watanabe

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