Asian American Studies Now

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Subtitle: A Critical Reader
Edited and with an Introduction by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Thomas Chen
Subject: Asian American Studies, American Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4575-2
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4574-5
Pages: 672 pages
Publication Date: January 2010

Praise for Asian American Studies Now

"To read these essays is to be challenged again and again by some of the brightest minds and most sophisticated political sensibilities at work today.  This volume is essential reading."—Paul Spickard, author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity

Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors, summarizes and defines the current shape of this rapidly changing field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, U.S. imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, social justice, and pedagogy.

Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen have selected essays for the significance of their contribution to the field and their clarity, brevity, and accessibility to readers with little to no prior knowledge of Asian American studies. Featuring both reprints of seminal articles and groundbreaking texts, as well as bold new scholarship, Asian American Studies Now addresses the new circumstances, new communities, and new concerns that are reconstituting Asian America.