... GIDRA liberation protest rights Vietnam War imperialism international racism revolutionary solidarity war discrimination justice Koreans Pacific nisei Arab and Arab American Association for Asian American Studies AAAS Chin Vincent incarceration Korematsu Fred Lin Jeremy activism...

...Situated adjacent to present-day student protests calling for more diversity with regard to program, department, and faculty hiring, Sharma recounts the contested formation of Asian American studies at her home institution, Northwestern Univversity. activism Black Lives Matter movement diversity...

...Conversant with the previous chapter’s emphasis on the corporate, neoliberal university, Chapter 5 meditates on the ways in which Asian American studies is often diluted at the curricular and programmatic levels. This chapter also considers how other interdisciplines—namely Women’s, Gender...

... advocacy model minority discrimination sovereignty Pacific rights empire humanitarianism liberation protest Arab and Arab American PACBI Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel refugee terrorism Islam activism Association for Asian American Studies AAAS...

... pedagogies Prashad Vijay prison Asian American studies capitalism globalization model minority racialization On May 15, 2015, a coalition of sixty-four Asian American organizations filed a complaint to the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. ¹ This “Complaint against Harvard...

...Born out of 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...

...Focused on the ways in which Asian American studies has and has not been accessed in mainstream and contemporary debates concerning race, ethnicity, and nation, Yu contemplates the possibilities and limitations of a field that is institutionalized yet largely absent in public discourse. Internment...

... this position in the years following the historic action. Srikanth critically considers the history and aftermath of the AAAS boycott. Association for Asian American Studies AAAS Hawai‘i Internment Japanese American orientalism Pacific Palestine rights Said Edward settler colonialism solidarity Israel...

...Chapter 12 addresses the ways in which Asian American Studies’ overriding insistence on recovering a useable resistant past via the aforementioned rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s has made it troublingly reluctant to examine relevant accommodation. As the title suggests, Wu considers how...

...Nguyen, who was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016), unwaveringly and unabashedly deconstructs how Asian American studies has become professionalized and entrenched, and in that sense, has both succeeded and failed. Asian American studies critique failure institutionalization...

... 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...

... Conference racialization America is in the Heart antiracist Asian American Studies Bulosan Carlos citizenship racism Third World Liberation Front TWLF transnationalism Asian American panethnicity Civil Rights Movement Ethnic studies San Juan Jr E Association for Asian American Studies AAAS...