Research Catalog

Title

Asian Americans : experiences and perspectives / edited by Timothy P. Fong, Larry H. Shinagawa.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fong, Timothy P.

Description

viii, 448 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Asian Americans

Contents

• Introduction / Timothy P. Fong -- Ch. 1. An Overview of the Asian American Experience. The History of Asians in America / Timothy P. Fong. Contemporary Asian American Sociodemographic Status / Larry H. Shinagawa -- Ch. 2. Critical Perspectives. Asian American Historiography / Sucheng Chan. Is Yellow Black or White? / Gary Y. Okihiro. Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation / Shirley Hune -- Ch. 3. Asian American Communities. The Acculturation Pattern of Orange County's Southeast Asian Refugees / Chor-Swang Ngin. Asian Americans in Enclaves - They Are Not One Community: New Modes of Asian American Settlement / Tom L. Chung. Filipinos Find Home in Daly City / Bert Eljera. Dixie's Global Village / Jeff Yang. Still Bitter After All These Years / Angela E. Oh -- Ch. 4. Education Issues. We Could Shape It: Organizing for Asian Pacific American Student Empowerment / Peter Nein-Chu Kiang.
• Educating Asian Pacific Americans: Struggles and Progress / Shirley Hune and Kenyon S. Chan. Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground? / Ronald Takaki. Being Different Together in the University Classroom: Multiracial Identity as Transgressive Education / Teresa Kay Williams, Cynthia L. Nakashima and George Kitahara Kich / [et al.] -- Ch. 5. Employment and Occupation. The Inventing and Reinventing of "Model Minorities": The Cultural Veil Obscuring Structural Sources of Inequality / Deborah Woo. Asian Americans in the Public Service: Success, Diversity, and Discrimination / Pan Suk Kim and Gregory B. Lewis. San Francisco Guards Punished for Their Accents: Discrimination Spoken Here / Richard J. P. Cavosora. Immigrant Asian Women in Bay Area Garment Sweatshops: "After Sewing, Laundry, Cleaning and Cooking, I Have No Breath Left to Sing," / Miriam Ching Louie -- Ch. 6. Popular Culture, Imagery, and Stereotypes. The Rape Fantasy: The Cheat and Broken Blossoms / Gina Marchetti.
• The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation / James S. Moy. Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck / Jessica Hagedorn. What Hollywood Should Know: A Call to Action from an Asian American Actor / Steve Park. A Disappointing "All-American Girl," / William Wong -- Ch. 7. Families, Identities, and Culture. Chinese-American Families / Evelyn Nakano Glenn and Stacey G. H. Yap. Vietnamese Families / Nazli Kibria. Invisible Americans: An Exploration of Indo-American Quality of Life / Snehendu B. Kar, Kevin Campbell and Armando Jimenez / [et al.]. A False and Shattered Peace / Katherine Kam -- Ch. 8. New Asian American Families, Identities, and Culture. Asian American Panethnicity and Intermarriage / Larry H. Shinagawa and Gin Y. Pang. All of the Above / Angelo Ragaza. A Fighter for Gay Rights / Carlos Mendez. Stories from the Homefront: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons / Alice Y. Hom --
• Ch. 9. Asian American Political Empowerment. Becoming Citizens, Becoming Voters: The Naturalization and Political Participation of Asian Pacific Immigrants / Paul Ong and Don Nakanishi. Asian Americans and Latinos in San Gabriel Valley, California: Ethnic Political Cooperation and Redistricting, 1990-1992 / Leland T. Saito. P.R. Elections in N.Y.C.: Effects of Preference Voting on Asian-American Participation / Tito Sinha. Foreign Money Is No Friend of Ours / Ling-Chi Wang. Asian Americans Under Glass: Where the Furor Over the President's Fundraising Has Gone Awry - and Racist / Phil Tajitsu Nash and Frank Wu. S. F. Rally Spotlights Kao Killing / Bert Eljera -- Ch. 10. Future Directions in Asian American Studies. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences / Lisa Lowe. Postmodern Possibilities: Theoretical and Political Directions for Asian American Studies / Keith Osajima.
• Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads / Sau-Ling C. Wong. Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi.

ISBN

0137429665

LCCN

99022781

OCLC

• 41017450
• ocm41017450

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries