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Contemporary Asian America : a multidisciplinary reader / edited by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood.

Contributor(s): Zhou, Min, 1956- | Gatewood, James V, 1972-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xv, 729 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814796915 (paper : alk. paper); 0814796907 (cloth : alk. paper))Subject(s): Asian Americans | Asian Americans -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 973/.0495073 LOC classification: E184.O6 | C66 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: revisiting contemporary Asian America / Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood -- "On strike!" San Francisco State College strike, 1968-1969: the role of Asian American students / Karen Umemoto -- The "four prisons" and the movements of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu -- From a different shore: their history bursts with telling / Ronald Takaki -- When and where I enter / Gary Y. Okihiro -- U.S. immigration policies and Asian migration / Paul Ong and John M. Liu -- Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- The social construction of gendered migration from the Philippines / James A. Tyner -- Life and work in the inner city / Paul Ong and Karen Umemoto -- Work and its place in the lives of immigrant women: garment workers in New York City's Chinatown / Min Zhou and Regina Nordquist -- Striving for the American dream: struggle, success, and intergroup conflict among Korean immigrant entrepreneurs / Jennifer Lee -- Children of inmates: the effects of the redress movement among third-generation Japanese Americans / Yasuko I. Takezawa -- Social capital in Chinatown: the role of community-based organizations and families in the adaptation of the younger generation / Min Zhou -- New household forms, old family values: the formation and reproduction of the Filipino transnational family in Los Angeles / Rhacel Salazer Parreñas -- Sangha of the South: Laotian Buddhism and social adaptation in rural Louisiana / Carl L. Bankston III -- The structure and social functions of Korean immigrant churches in the United States / Pyong Gap Min -- Asian Indian and Pakistani religions in the United States / Raymond Brady Williams -- Doing gender with a feminist gaze: toward a historical reconstruction of Asian America / Shirley Hune -- Power, patriarchy, and gender conflict in the Vietnamese immigrant community / Nazli Kibria -- Asian Americans as the model minority: an analysis of the popular press image in the 1960s and 1980s / Keith Osajima -- The "model minority" deconstructed / Lucie Cheng and Philip Q. Yang -- A quota on excellence? The Asian American admissions debate / Don T. Nakanishi -- The murder of Navroze Mody: race, violence, and the search for order / Deborah N. Misir -- Race, class, citizenship, and extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 campaign finance scandal / L. Ling-chi Wang -- A letter to my sister / Lisa Park -- Maiden voyage: excursion into sexuality and identity politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi -- Stories from the homefront: perspectives of Asian American parents with lesbian daughters and gay sons / Alice Y. Hom -- Searching for community: Filipino gay men in New York City / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- In search of the right spouse: interracial marriage among Chinese and Japanese Americans / Colleen Fong and Judy Yung -- What must I be? Asian Americans and the question of multiethnic identity / Paul R. Spickard -- Is there an Asian American aesthetics? / transcribed by Gargi Chatterjee and edited by Augie Tam -- Art, activism, Asia, and Asian Americans / Dorinne Kondo -- Rethinking race: paradigms and policy formation / Shirley Hune -- Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity: marking Asian American differences / Lisa Lowe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: revisiting contemporary Asian America / Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood -- "On strike!" San Francisco State College strike, 1968-1969: the role of Asian American students / Karen Umemoto -- The "four prisons" and the movements of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s / Glenn Omatsu -- From a different shore: their history bursts with telling / Ronald Takaki -- When and where I enter / Gary Y. Okihiro -- U.S. immigration policies and Asian migration / Paul Ong and John M. Liu -- Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian Americans / Rubén G. Rumbaut -- The social construction of gendered migration from the Philippines / James A. Tyner -- Life and work in the inner city / Paul Ong and Karen Umemoto -- Work and its place in the lives of immigrant women: garment workers in New York City's Chinatown / Min Zhou and Regina Nordquist -- Striving for the American dream: struggle, success, and intergroup conflict among Korean immigrant entrepreneurs / Jennifer Lee -- Children of inmates: the effects of the redress movement among third-generation Japanese Americans / Yasuko I. Takezawa -- Social capital in Chinatown: the role of community-based organizations and families in the adaptation of the younger generation / Min Zhou -- New household forms, old family values: the formation and reproduction of the Filipino transnational family in Los Angeles / Rhacel Salazer Parreñas -- Sangha of the South: Laotian Buddhism and social adaptation in rural Louisiana / Carl L. Bankston III -- The structure and social functions of Korean immigrant churches in the United States / Pyong Gap Min -- Asian Indian and Pakistani religions in the United States / Raymond Brady Williams -- Doing gender with a feminist gaze: toward a historical reconstruction of Asian America / Shirley Hune -- Power, patriarchy, and gender conflict in the Vietnamese immigrant community / Nazli Kibria -- Asian Americans as the model minority: an analysis of the popular press image in the 1960s and 1980s / Keith Osajima -- The "model minority" deconstructed / Lucie Cheng and Philip Q. Yang -- A quota on excellence? The Asian American admissions debate / Don T. Nakanishi -- The murder of Navroze Mody: race, violence, and the search for order / Deborah N. Misir -- Race, class, citizenship, and extraterritoriality: Asian Americans and the 1996 campaign finance scandal / L. Ling-chi Wang -- A letter to my sister / Lisa Park -- Maiden voyage: excursion into sexuality and identity politics in Asian America / Dana Y. Takagi -- Stories from the homefront: perspectives of Asian American parents with lesbian daughters and gay sons / Alice Y. Hom -- Searching for community: Filipino gay men in New York City / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- In search of the right spouse: interracial marriage among Chinese and Japanese Americans / Colleen Fong and Judy Yung -- What must I be? Asian Americans and the question of multiethnic identity / Paul R. Spickard -- Is there an Asian American aesthetics? / transcribed by Gargi Chatterjee and edited by Augie Tam -- Art, activism, Asia, and Asian Americans / Dorinne Kondo -- Rethinking race: paradigms and policy formation / Shirley Hune -- Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity: marking Asian American differences / Lisa Lowe.

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