Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

Author:   Cathy Schlund-Vials ,  Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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Pages:   328
Publication Date:   03 October 2017
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Cathy Schlund-Vials ,  Viet Thanh Nguyen
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823278602


ISBN 10:   0823278603
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   03 October 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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 Yên Lê 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 Liên 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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iFlashpoints for Asian American Studiesr offers an ambitious, bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale reconsideration of how Asian American studies operates inside and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an academic and political project. This volume presents a highly original reassessment from the inside of Asian American studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustainment. --Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder


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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Afterword By) Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the short story collection, The Refugees. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Edited By) Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (UConn). She is the author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work.

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