A Companion to Asian American Studies

A Companion to Asian American Studies provides a snapshot of early debates within the field, as well as more contemporary essays that have helped transform the field’s intellectual terrain. Ranging from essays on class and sexuality to those focusing on literature, transnationality, and identity, this volume exemplifies the changing intellectual shape of Asian American Studies from its early periods to a more contemporary one. The anthology comprises 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Divided into sections covering psychology, history, literature, feminism, and more current work in the field, this volume is a summation of an important and increasingly vibrant field of study. It can be used in conjunction with Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, also edited by Kent A. Ono.

Preface. Acknowledgments. Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies. (Kent A. Ono). Part I:. Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies. Psychology . 1 Chinese–American Personality and Mental Health. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue). 2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America. (Ben R. Tong). 3 Chinese–American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong′s Criticisms. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue). History . 4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore. (L. Ling–chi Wang). 5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography. Sucheng Chan. 6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore. (Elaine H. Kim). 7 A Response to Ling–chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan. (Ronald Takaki). Literature and Feminism . 8. Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake (Excerpt). (Frank Chin). 9. The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? (King–Kok Cheung). Part II: Influential Essays in Asian American Studies. 10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese–American Family Strategies. (Evelyn Nakano Glenn). 11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature. (Elaine H. Kim). 12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s. (Keith Osajima). 13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago′s Filipino American Community since 1925. (Barbara Posadas). 14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn. (Richard Fung). 15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences. (Lisa Lowe). 16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism. (E. San Juan, Jr.). 17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile. (Oscar V. Campomanes). 18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary. (David Palumbo–Liu). 19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation: Filipinos in the United States. (Yen Le Espiritu). 20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies. (David L. Eng). Index.

Kent A. Ono is Professor of Asian American Studies and Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, where he is also Director of the Asian American Studies Program. He is co–author, with John Sloop, of Shifting Borders (2002), and co–editor of Enterprise Zones (1996).

“An extremely helpful collection for teaching that locates the field’s beginnings and, importantly, charts its intellectual power and influence.” Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History