...We think of Transpacific Studies as a new research paradigm, a dynamic model that goes beyond conventional American, Asian and Asian American studies models. In examining the phenomenon of Transpacific movement, Transpacific Studies enlarges the scope of American Studies to address Pacific Rim...

... to the birth of Asian American studies can promote positive views among university students toward political engagement and social activism. Asian American studies teaching in Japan immigration policies Japanese students on fairness Japanese American internment Jim Crow laws justice Dream Act Japan...

... San Francisco State College University Third World Vietnam Asian American identity Asian American Political Alliance AAPA Asian American studies Asian Community Center Baodiao Protecting Diaoyutai movement Bridge magazine Cheng Lucie Chow Carmen Everybody’s Bookstore foreign student Hsu...

...This book wrestles with Hmong Americans' inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. It negotiates both Hmong American political and cultural citizenship, rewriting the established view...

...This chapter analyzes the development of the field of Asian American Studies, focusing on efforts to institutionalize and professionalize the discipline, along with the multiple requirements and challenges scholars encounter in the academy, especially balancing their teaching and on-campus and off...

..., the chapter also discusses other areas in greater need of research attention, as well as the scope of Hmong American studies within the larger field of Asian American studies. Deinard Amos S Downing Bruce T Healing by Heart Clinical and Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers Hendricks Glenn L...

...This chapter explores the possibilities of an Asian American studies which is more transpacific and inter-Asia oriented, with a specific focus on Japan and East Asia. Inviting U.S.- and Canada-based Asian Americanists to interrogate the discipline’s embedded North America-centrism...

... across the Pacific, from Asia to the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. The introduction considers the advantages and limitations of models found in Asian studies, American studies, and Asian American studies for dealing with these flows. The editors argue that Transpacific Studies can draw from all...