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Introduction: On reclaiming the political project of Asian American studies / Cindy I-Fen Cheng
pt. 1. Shifting paradigms: On racial stereotyping / Leslie Bow; On the Asian American question / Joshua Chambers-Letson; Postcolonialism and Asian American studies / Erin Suzuki; Diaspora as frame and object of analysis in Asian American studies / Martin Joseph Ponce; American antipodes: Anna Kazumi Stahl's Flores de un solo día / Michelle Har Kim
pt. 2. War, colonization, and U.S. imperialism: The Vietnam War and the "good refugee" / Yen Le Espiritu; Refugee memoryscape: the rhetoric of Hmong refugee writing / Chong A. Moua; Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; Asian settler colonialism's histories / Bianca Kai Isaki; The strange career of the Filipino "national": empire, citizenship, and racial statecraft / Rick Baldoz; The Arab American experience: from invisibility to heightened visibility / Louise Cainkar
pt. 3. Globalization, global restructuring, and the question of national belongings: Popular music, globalization, and Asian/America / Christine Bacareza Balance; The sports loyalty test: Asian athletes and Asian American cultural politics / Rachael Miyung Joo; Jeremy Lin, global Asian American / Timothy Yu; Beneath each layer of cloth: Chinese women in the New York City garment industry / Margaret M. Chin
pt. 4: Representations within and across nations: The globality of Af-Pak: U.S. Empire and the Muslim problem / Junaid Rana; The Japanese American transnational generation: rethinking the spatial and conceptual boundaries of Asian America / Michael Jin; Migration, citizenship, and sexuality in Asian/America / Yu-Fang Cho; From noxious quarters to affluent ethno-burbs: race and space in Asian American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee; The invention of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu
pt. 5: Social change and political participation: Asian American studies and/as digital humanities / Lori Kido Lopez and Konrad Ng; Asian American queer and trans activisms / Jian Neo Chen; "Other": reconsidering Asian exclusion and immigrant rights / Sujani K. Reddy; Afro-Asian solidarity through time and space: roads taken and not taken / Yuichiro Onishi; The political participation of Asian Americans / Pei-te Lien.
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On reclaiming the political project of Asian American studies / Cindy I-Fen Cheng
pt. 1. Shifting paradigms: On racial stereotyping / Leslie Bow; On the Asian American question / Joshua Chambers-Letson; Postcolonialism and Asian American studies / Erin Suzuki; Diaspora as frame and object of analysis in Asian American studies / Martin Joseph Ponce; American antipodes: Anna Kazumi Stahl's Flores de un solo día / Michelle Har Kim
pt. 2. War, colonization, and U.S. imperialism: The Vietnam War and the "good refugee" / Yen Le Espiritu; Refugee memoryscape: the rhetoric of Hmong refugee writing / Chong A. Moua; Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American memory work / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; Asian settler colonialism's histories / Bianca Kai Isaki; The strange career of the Filipino "national": empire, citizenship, and racial statecraft / Rick Baldoz; The Arab American experience: from invisibility to heightened visibility / Louise Cainkar
pt. 3. Globalization, global restructuring, and the question of national belongings: Popular music, globalization, and Asian/America / Christine Bacareza Balance; The sports loyalty test: Asian athletes and Asian American cultural politics / Rachael Miyung Joo; Jeremy Lin, global Asian American / Timothy Yu; Beneath each layer of cloth: Chinese women in the New York City garment industry / Margaret M. Chin
pt. 4: Representations within and across nations: The globality of Af-Pak: U.S. Empire and the Muslim problem / Junaid Rana; The Japanese American transnational generation: rethinking the spatial and conceptual boundaries of Asian America / Michael Jin; Migration, citizenship, and sexuality in Asian/America / Yu-Fang Cho; From noxious quarters to affluent ethno-burbs: race and space in Asian American history / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee; The invention of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu
pt. 5: Social change and political participation: Asian American studies and/as digital humanities / Lori Kido Lopez and Konrad Ng; Asian American queer and trans activisms / Jian Neo Chen; "Other": reconsidering Asian exclusion and immigrant rights / Sujani K. Reddy; Afro-Asian solidarity through time and space: roads taken and not taken / Yuichiro Onishi; The political participation of Asian Americans / Pei-te Lien.