... the controversy around Yamanaka’s work to “teach the conflicts” of literary studies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Blu’s Hanging Lois-Ann Yamanaka Association for Asian American Studies controversy Hawai’i Filipino American Japanese sexual predation close reading Works Cited Chan...

... territory visvis her strict parents. This student took two other classes with me, and in the third one she introduced herself to her classmates as a Filipino American bisexual woman. She even asked if her boyfriend could attend a few classes so that he could see for himself what went on in my classes...

... students to think of themselves as doing queer theory whenever they brought their own distinctly Singaporean insights to bear on literary analysis, rather than relying solely on concepts offered by Euro-American queer theorists and critics to authorize their interpretations. Given Singapore's status...

... of a class in which she had been a paraprofessional. This class was in many ways similar to the one Jessica had told us about. The students were all members of minori- ties: more than 80 percent were Hispanic; the rest were Vietnamese, Filipino, Indian, and Sudanese. Delsa said that many of the students came...

... joined in a particularly Ameri- can way, within American institutions, in an American space. The teacher in New York or Los Angeles may look out over a classroom and think, ‘The whole world is here.’ It isn’t” (Muchiri et al. 1995: 195). Christiane Dona- hue indicates that this critique has as yet...