...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...

..., 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...

... to Have a Lifestyle Crisp theology Nossiter Jonathan Proust Marcel Resident Alien Wizard of Oz The Musto Michael Sally Jesse Raphael Show The Blackness Kirk Marshall Kettelhack Guy Evening with Quentin Crisp An “Do You Reverse?” O’Connor Queer Theory Performance Studies American Studies...

...-Soviet migration US anti-immigration legislation SB 1070 whiteness studies literary and cultural studies American studies Latina/o studies Asian American studies Gary Shteyngart In 2010, my home state of Arizona made history by passing Senate Bill 1070, the first in a series of similar laws...

...There is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology, and the social sciences more generally, need to engage more thoroughly with the critical fields of American studies and ethnic studies. This is the focus of the volume. At the same time, since the interdisciplinary fields of American...

... traditional sociology approaches to racial attitudes that have emphasized individual quantitative measures and White attitudes, we draw on the critical tools of ethnic and American studies approaches to help us better understand how survey takers’ patterned responses to questions about race relations may...

... Roland “Death of the Author The” Barthes Foucault Michel “What Is an Author?” Foucault cosmology ambivalence Blackness Melville Herman Moby Dick Melville queerness American Literature American Studies What I have here propounded is true:—therefore it cannot die; or if by any...

... the Masked and Anonymous Guattari Félix “Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall A” Dylan “Drifter’s Escape” Dylan American Studies Popular Music Studies American Literature Performance Studies Bob Dylan style An artist has to be careful never to really arrive at a place where he thinks he is “somewhere.” You...

... Music in White America Baraka Ellison Ralph Infidels Dylan Ways of Seeing Berger Performance Studies American Literature Popular Music Studies Queer Theory Philosophy American Studies Seen the arrow on the doorpost Saying, “This land is condemned All the way from New Orleans To new Jerusalem...

... Elizabeth idealism incorporeal Incorporeal Ontology Ethics and the Limits of Materialism The Grosz Plato Guattari Félix pragmatism ambivalence Naked Civil Servant The Crisp American Literature Popular Music Studies American Studies Bob Dylan Flannery O’Connor I believe, like most people...

... structures of (im)mobility affecting the lives of deportees and their families and communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Peruvians who were deported to Lima and Callao from the United States between 2009 and 2017, and operating at the intersection of Latinx and Latin American Studies...

... studies literary and cultural studies American studies Sana Krasikov Anya Ulinich Indian American author Bharati Mukherjee recently theorized a new form of US immigrant writing, which she calls the “Literature of New Arrival.” Her list of authors who participate in this new form of writing includes...

... Labor migration Walker Max post-Soviet migration whiteness studies American studies immigration studies anti-immigration discourses and policies Among the vast field of contenders in the 2016 US presidential election, a record number were second-generation immigrants. Democratic candidate Bernie...

..., the chapter calls for an expansion of the field of Asian American Studies to include adoptee experiences in its teaching, research, and professional service. Dubinsky Karen Guatemala adoptees from international adoption Jacobson Heather Russia adoptees from Selman Peter celebrity adoptions Cho Seihon...

...Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served...

... Plessy v. Ferguson immigration law citizenship reconstruction racial formation Asian American studies African American studies slavery abolition Published in 1902, the pro-Chinese pamphlet Truth versus Fiction; Justice versus Prejudice: Meat for All, Not for a Few marks the last...

... is politics and how relationships of power intersect with politics. Through the prism of Latin American Studies, the book also discusses two distinct and rarely intersecting historiographies: world history and masculinity. Lerner Gerda women’s history globalization and historiography historiography nation...

...Style: An American Cosmology is an interdisciplinary conceptual analysis with roots in American Studies and Queer Studies. Its familiar key term and title conveys meanings and applications that, over time, we may have forgotten we knew. While in common parlance, style is equated...