Full Description
Once thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoization, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation. Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations around gender, class, sexuality, and generation reveal new processes as well as the demographic diversity of today's Asian American population. The case studies gathered here speak to the fluidity of these communities and to the need for new analytic approaches to account for the similarities and differences between them. Taken together, these essays forcefully argue that it is time to replace the outworn concept of a monolithic Asian America. Author note: Linda Trinh Vo is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Rick Bonus, Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, is the author of "Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space" (Temple).
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: On Intersections and Divergences - Rick Bonus and Linda Trinh V' Part I: Communities in Transition: Spaces and Practices 1. Asian and Latino Immigration and the Revitalization of Sunset Park, Brooklyn - Tarry Hum 2. The Politics and Poetics of a Taiwanese Chinese American Identity - Eileen Chia-Ching Fung 3. Southeast Asians in the House: Multiple Layers of Identity - Russell Jeung 4. Gay Asian Men in Los Angeles before the 1980s - Eric C. Wat 5. Pilipinokaba? Internet Discussions in the Filipino Community - Emily Noelle Ignacio Part II: Communities in Transformation: Identities and Generations 6. Pacific Islander Americans and Asian American Identity - Debbie Hippolite Wright and Paul Spickard 7. "Eligible" to be Japanese American: Multiraciality in Basket Ball Leagues and Beauty Pageants - Rebecca Chiyoko King 8. Young Asian American Professionals in Los Angeles: A Community in Transition - Pensri Ho 9. Internalized Stereotypes and Shame: The Struggles of 1.5-Generation Korean Americans in Hawai'i - Mary Yu Danico 10. Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurial Children - Lisa Sun-Hee Park Part III: Communities of Alternatives: Representations and Politics 11. Imagining Panethnic Community and Performing Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book - Karen Har-Yen Chow 12. Addressing Domestic Violence and the South Asian Community in the United States - Margaret Abraham 13. Asian Pacific Americans and Urban Politics - Edward J. W. Park 14. The Political and Philanthropic Contexts for Incorporating Asian American Communities - Jiannbin Lee Shiao 15. How Public-Policy Reforms Shape, and Reveal the Shape of, Asian America - Andrew Leong About the Contributors Index
