Introduction: crisis, conundrum, and critique / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- Part I. Ethnic sound revisted -- Five decades later : reflections of a yellow power advocate turned poet / Amy Uyematsu -- Has Asian American studies failed? / Timothy Yu -- The ethnic studies project: Asian American studies and the Black Lives Matter campus / Nitasha Sharma -- Planned obsolescence, strategic resistance: ethnic studies, Asian American studies, and the neoliberal university / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- Un-homing Asian American studies: refusals and the politics of commitment / Anita Mannur -- Part II: Displaced subjects -- No Muslims involved: letter to ethnic studies comrades / Junaid Rana -- Outsourcing, terror, and transnational South Asia / Asha Nadkarni -- Asian American studies and Palestine: the accidental and reluctant pioneer / Rajini Srikanth -- Against the yellowwashing of Israel: the BDS movement and liberatory solidarities across settler states / Candace Fujikane -- Part III: Remapping Aisa, recalibrating Asian America -- Transpacific entanglements / Yên Lê Espiritu, Lisa Lowe, and Lisa Yoneyama -- Tensions, engagements, aspirations: the politics of knowledge production in Filipino American studies / Martin F. Manalansan IV -- Asian international students at U.S. universities in the post-2008 collapse era / Cynthia Wu -- Asians are the new... what? / Kandice Chuh -- Part IV: Toward an Asian American ethic of care -- Asian Americans, disability, and the model minority myth / Yoonmee Chang -- Buddhist meditation as strategic embodiment: an optative reflection / Sharon A. Suh -- What is passed on (or, why we need sweetened condensed milk for the soul) / Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano -- An ethics of generosity / Min Hyoung Song -- Afterword: becoming bilingual, or notes on numbness and feeling / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Summary:
" 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. "-- Provided by publisher. "Born out of mid-century social movements, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection which considers the contemporary possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline"-- Provided by publisher.
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