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Asian
American Studies Now
Price: $37.50
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:
"A very valuable resource for students and scholars of Asian American and ethnic studies. Highly recommended."
—Choice, Jan 2011
"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
Description:
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.
About the Author:
Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu is a senior lecturer in the American studies
program at Tufts University and the coeditor of Asian American Studies: A Reader
(Rutgers University Press).
Thomas C. Chen is a doctoral candidate in the American
civilization department at BrownUniversity.
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