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Asian Americans: Experiences and Perspectives
Timothy P. Fong, California State University, Sacramento
Larry H. Shinagawa, Sonoma State University

ISBN-10: 0137429665
ISBN-13: 9780137429660

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2000
Format: Paper; 448 pp
Published: 09/21/1999
Status: Instock

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An anthology for freshman/ sophomore-level introductory Asian American Studies or Ethnic Studies courses taught in Sociology or Asian Studies programs.

Authoritative, current, and accessible—yet scholastically rigorous—this anthology of personal stories, timely essays, social science readings, and informative educational resources provides a social, economic, and cultural overview of Asian Americans, relates the experiences of Asian Americans, and explores a variety of contemporary social issues deeply affecting Asian Americans. Designed to encourage students to think critically about social issues facing Asian Americans, it implicitly advances a multi-cultural, comparative, interdisciplinary approach to viewing the Asian American experience, and exposes students to major theoretical perspectives as well as the latest statistical data on Asian Americans.

Offers a wide variety of content material from various political, social, and cultural viewpoints on major contemporary social issues facing Asian Americans—all written by experts in their fields.
- Helps students make connections between identity, community, and history to thoroughly understand the Asian Pacific experience.

Features works that are theoretically engaging, approachable, current, diverse, and well-researched.
- Focuses students on issues and topics that are academic yet engaging for undergraduate students.

Provides a sufficient number of selections, each of which can stand alone or with related readings.
- Allows instructors to tailor readings for specific courses.

Begins each chapter with a brief introduction.
- Provides students with a context for the information covered in the reading.

Preface.

Introduction.

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.

2. Critical Perspectives.

Asian American Historiography, Sucheng Chan. Is Yellow Black or White? Gary Y. Okihiro. Rethinking Race: Paradigms and Policy Formation, Shirley Hune.

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.

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 Chan. Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground? Ronald Takaki. Being Different Together in the University Classroom: Multiracial Identity as Transgressive Education, Teresa Kay William, Cynthia L. Nakashima, George Kitahara Kich, and G. Reginald Daniel.

5. Employment and Occupation.

The Inventing and Reinventing of “Model Minorities”: the Cultural Veil Obscuring Structural Sources of Inequality, Deborah Woo. Asian Americans in 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. Cavosara. Immigrant Asian Women in Bay Area Garment Sweatshops: “After Sewing, Laundry, Cleaning, and Cooking, I Have No Breath Left to Sing,” Miriam Ching Louie.

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, Steve Park. A Disappointing “All-American Girl,” William Wong.

7. Families, Identities, and Culture.

Chinese-America Families, Evelyn Nakano Glenn with Stacey G.H. Yap. Vietnamese American Families, Nazli Kibria. Invisible Americans: An Exploration of Indo-American Quality of Life, Snehendu B. Kar, Kevin Campbell, Armando Jimenez, and Sangeeta R. Gupta. A False and Shattered Peace, Katherine Kam.

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. Horn.

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-America 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 and Frank Wu. S.F. Rally Spotlights Kao Killing, Bert Eljera.

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.

Contributors.

Sociology of Asian-Americans (Race and Ethnic Studies)
Race / Ethnic Relations [SUPPLEMENTAL PRODUCTS] (Sociology)
Race and Ethnic Relations (Race and Ethnic Studies)
Sociology of Asian Americans (Sociology)
Introduction to Asian-American Studies (Race and Ethnic Studies)

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