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ISBN-10: 0823278611
ISBN-13: 9780823278619
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publish Date: 10/03/2017
Dimensions: 8.80" L, 5.90" W, 1.00" H

Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

Afterword by: Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection that considers-almost fifty years after its student protest founding–the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and–more provocatively, has not–responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.

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Flashpoints for Asian American Studies offers an ambitious, bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale reconsideration of how Asian American studies operates inside and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an academic and political project. This volume presents a highly original reassessment from the inside of Asian American studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustainment.––-Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulde
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ISBN-10: 0823278611
ISBN-13: 9780823278619
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publish Date: 10/03/2017
Dimensions: 8.80" L, 5.90" W, 1.00" H
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