Disoriented : Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State / Robert Chang.
Chang, Robert, author.
2000
KF4757.5.A75 C48 1999
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Title Disoriented : Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State / Robert Chang.
Author Chang, Robert, author.
ISBN 9780814772393
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814772393.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2000]
Copyright ©2000
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814772393.001.0001 doi
Call Number KF4757.5.A75 C48 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.730873
Summary Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? In Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State, Robert Chang examines the current discourse on race and law and the implications of postmodern theory and affirmative action-all of which have largely excluded Asian Americans-in order to develop a theory of critical Asian American legal studies. Demonstrating that the ongoing debate surrounding multiculturalism and immigration in the U.S. is really a struggle over the meaning of "America," Chang reveals how the construction of Asian American-ness has become a necessary component in stabilizing a national American identity-- a fact Chang criticizes as harmful to Asian Americans. Defining the many "borders" that operate in positive and negative ways to construct America as we know it, Chang analyzes the position of Asian Americans within America's black/white racial paradigm, how "the family" operates as a stand-in for race and nation, and how the figure of the immigrant embodies a central contradiction in allegories of America. "Has profound political implications for race relations in the new century"-Michigan Law Review, May 2001
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Series Critical America ; ; 11
In Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814715215
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Becoming Asian American
Part I. A Meditation on Borders
1. Dreaming in Black and White
2. Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination
Part II. Developing a Critical Asian American Legal Studies
Bridge
3. Why We Need a Critical Asian American Legal Studies
4. Narrative Space
5. A Narrative Account of Asian America
6. Mapping Asian American Legal Studies
Part III. From Identity Politics to Political Identities
Bridge
7. Reverse Racism!
8. One America
Postscript
Notes
Index
About the Author

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