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
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- CONTENTS
- Introduction: Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique
- Part I ETHNIC STUDIES REVISITED
- 1. Five Decades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet
- 2. Has Asian American Studies Failed?
- 3. The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus
- 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Resistance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University
- 5. Un-homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment
- Part II DISPLACED SUBJECTS
- 6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades
- 7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia
- 8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer
- 9. Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States
- Part III REMAPPING ASIA, RECALIBRATING ASIAN AMERICA
- 10. Transpacific Entanglements
- 11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies
- 12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era
- 13. Asians Are the New . . . What?
- Part IV TOWARD AN ASIAN AMERICAN ETHIC OF CARE
- 14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth
- 15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection
- 16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul)
- 17. An Ethics of Generosity
- Afterword: Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index
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