...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the development of Asian American studies, highlighting particularly the conflict that erupted within the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) members over a fiction award given to Lois-Ann Yamanaka's novel, Blu's Hanging...

...This chapter discusses the debates over the impact of postmodern and poststructuralist theory in Asian American studies in a special issue of the journal Amerasia, entitled Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies. Even though this debate concerned theoretical...

... into view when tracing the disciplinary circulations of geography in an American context, a historicizing sort of attention to geography that American Studies scholars have generated about earlier historical periods but that has been late in coming to the modernist period. The national circulation...

...This chapter examines the emergence of a new kind of journal publishing related to American studies. It charts the evolution of American studies in order to trace the trajectory of journal publishing on the subject from one grounded initially on certain assumptions about territorial enclosure...

...This chapter analyses the place of religion in American studies, focusing on the music of Bruce Springsteen. It suggests that the heterogeneous nature of Springsteen's cultural influences might be seen to effectively mirror the hybrid condition of religious affect that his songs project...

... rights solidarity ethics advocacy racialization diversity international neoimperialism outsourcing Palestine postcolonial South Asia transnational and transnationalism war War on Terror American Studies Association ASA Association for Asian American Studies AAAS capitalism indigenous...

... logics and provides strategies to subvert disciplinary “obsolescence” via a turn to critical/comparative Asian/Asian American studies. civil rights ethnic studies institutionalization Native neoliberal and neoliberalism activism antiracist capitalism corporatization of the university diversity...

... multiculturalism segregation agency Facebook feminisms protest Prashad Vijay diaspora globalization Islamophobia neoliberalism South Asian American Studies When Chris Jobin’s computer programming job was outsourced to India in 2006, he traveled to Bangalore as part of Morgan Spurlock’s television series...

...Chapter 14 engages a sustained critique of the ableist aspects of Asian American studies. Such ableism, as Chang maintains, obscures through minoritized exceptionalism the possibility of a disabled Asian American personhood, rendering such bodies as “impossible subjects.” model minority racism...

...Chapter 15 seriously scrutinizes the relationship of Buddhism, “one of America’s racialized other religious darlings,” to Asian American studies, which has yet to consistently recognize religion as a legitimate site upon which to map race, gender, and sexuality. Suh argues that “the common Buddhist...

... comparisons to Western expansion breasts as marker of racial difference drapetomania Helper Hinton Rowan scientific racism ethnology male scientists American studies ethnographical studies gender studies science and technology have the woolly-headed races of men ever produced one, even...

... Herbert Adolphus hypersexuality Bean Robert Bennett hysteria Emancipation Lynching Morton Samuel NAACP Walter White lynching scientific racism racialized science lynching American studies African American studies culture and race in a chapter of his autobiography titled “I Learn...

... in American studies was established at Tokyo Imperial University. It observes that although naive notions of America as a republic of virtue had faded, the political values associated with American democracy—individualism, equality, freedom, public debate, and fair play—still attracted intellectuals across...

..., and imperialism. These chapters challenge the dominant assumptions in the field of South Asian American studies while also addressing the contemporary political and economic conjuncture and the places of South Asian migration within it. The book also examines how South Asian migrants to the United States have...

... the book within San Francisco history; traces its intervention in the history of leisure, sexuality studies, whiteness studies, and Asian American studies; discusses its methods; and offers a chapter outline. Native Americans San Francisco whiteness Orientalism Historiography Asian American Studies...

... Hubble Space Telescope astronomy art history visual culture cultural studies American studies History of science Media studies Sublime aesthetics A dark cloud against a background of orange and blue reaches upward, stretching nearly to the top of the frame that contains it. Brightly backlit...

... studies American studies History of science Media studies Sublime aesthetics Astronomers hold complex attitudes toward images, and they have carefully crafted the images from the Hubble Space Telescope in a manner that satisfies their need for a scientifically valid representation of the data...

... to be important critics of the state. For the field of American Studies, these debates about anti-Americanism (including differences between Schatz and Shorbagy) are important because they remind us that the challenge for the discipline (shared in some sense with the activists) is how to build a credible...

... how a sculpture is talked about as mainstream in Hungarian representational art, by people both on the right and on the left, when it was not and had not been. “Little Warsaw” then offers American Studies a reminder of how capacious it must be in what falls within its turf, while never forgetting...

... in the kinds of social and cultural analysis that American studies had established as a legitimate institutional niche on campus. American studies provided a home for the kind of criticism he wanted—one that looks at society as a whole, deploys whatever methods are necessary to do so, and makes a real effort...