Overview

Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience - one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians across the Americas have been shaped by the social dynamics and politics of settlement locations as much as by transnational connections and the economic forces of globalization. Contributors bring new insights to the unique situations of Asian communities previously overlooked by scholars, such as Vietnamese Canadians and the Lao living in Rhode Island. Other topics include Chinese laborers and merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, Afro-Amerasians in America, and the politics of second-generation Indian American youth culture. Together the essays provide a valuable comparative portrait of Asians across the Americas. Engaging issues of diaspora, transnational social practice and community building, gender, identity, institutionalized racism, and deterritoriality, this volume presents fresh perspectives on displacement, opening the topic up to a wider, more interdisciplinary terrain of inquiry and teaching.

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Author:   Wanni W. Anderson ,  Robert G Lee
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780813536118

ISBN 10:   0813536111
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   18 May 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr

Reviews

Through its combination of critical analysis of the diaspora framework and its presentation of carefully crafted case studies, Displacements and Diasporas breaks new ground both theoretically and substantively. -- Lane Ryo Hirabayashi * University of California, Riverside *

Through its combination of critical analysis of the diaspora framework and its presentation of carefully crafted case studies, Displacements and Diasporas breaks new ground both theoretically and substantively. - Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (University of California, Riverside)

"Through its combination of critical analysis of the diaspora framework and its presentation of carefully crafted case studies, Displacements and Diasporas breaks new ground both theoretically and substantively.--Lane Ryo Hirabayashi ""University of California, Riverside"""

Author Information

Wanni W. Anderson is an adjunct associate professor in the department of anthropology and ethnic studies concentration at Brown University. Robert G. Lee is an associate professor in the department of American civilization at Brown University.

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