...Andrew Hock Soon Ng This article argues that teaching Asian American literature should include immeasurable and nontangible factors that accompany racial grief, such as cultural betrayal, the trauma of belonging interstitially, and the sensation of displacement. I propose that these be introduced...

... had to reflect on his own subject positions as both an Asian American, who identifies with the struggle of other minorities, and a Cambodian, who must come to terms with his country’s historical tensions with Vietnam. Overall, the article demonstrates the importance of humanities teaching — where...

... 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...

... at Virginia Tech, where she is also core faculty in the PhD program in rhetoric and writing. Her research and teaching interests are in the cultural politics of user experience design, Asian American rhetoric, and institutional rhetorics. She coedited Building a History, Having a Home: A History...

... in the life of protagonist Esther Kuroiwa. But the explosive scene she witnesses on the bus, involving a white man s racist tirade directed at other passengers of Asian descent, brings much that is initially hidden and repressed to the surface of the story. Among these surfaced issues are several...

... the “questions [they] did not even know [they were] unable to formulate” (Johnson 1987: 172 – 73). I must teach them to move from a state of voluntary or involuntary cluelessness. Srikanth    Overwhelmed by the World 193 Janet Powers, a specialist in South Asian...

... of literary reading and its implications for pedagogy. Karen M. Cardozo is a visiting Five College professor of Asian American Stud- ies at Amherst College. She previously taught English and American studies courses at Mount Holyoke College (where she served in multiple capacities as a dean...

... of Color . San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. Arendt, Hannah. 1953 . The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2nd ed. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace. Asian Women United of California, eds. 1989 . Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women . Boston: Beacon. Banta, Martha. 1993...

... . “The Positive within the Negative...” In The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspective , ed. Amrita Basu and C. Elizabeth McGrory. Boulder, Colo.: Westview. Yamada, Mitsuye. 1983 . “Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman.” In This Bridge...

... on assistive technology and universal design. She enjoys integrating technology into content areas and collaborating with oth- ers on this process. erin Khuê Ninh is associate professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of a book...

..., I was interviewed for the first time for a position in which I might teach Asian American and women’s literature and creative writing. At that time I had not yet published my memoir or my two novels, so it was the poets who sat through my poetry reading and, as I learned later, discussed my...

...-based and institutional unknowns served me well. Initially, many of the students in my majority-Asian class at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), experienced a brand of blatant racism they had never before felt. Our class blog became a place to examine those encounters, to receive...

... and Economic Anxieties in the University As two women of color one African American, one Asian American teaching a newly required English course on ideological critique, we were challenged in ways that are typical for women of color in positions of insti- tutional authority (Pittman 2010; Johnson- Bailey...

... the world . . . walk out of our comfort zones yet we bring our identity with us. Our name is one of the most significant identities we carry.” That Pearl and Aarani explored microaggressions is significant given that, while discrimination against Asian and Asian American students is common, the experiences...

... heterogeneity among East Asian nations. This work includes serious obstacles, not least of all because “teaching postcolonial East Asian ecocriticisms outside the region means teaching in a language and culture not of the region” (172). While most of ecocriticism is conducted in English, Estok includes...

... communication in this case hit a snag when the Russian man insisted that Asians are heavy drug users. The offended Hmong student listened to his explanation, which had to do with the Asian drug traffic in Russia, and came away still a bit offended but with at least a rational explanation...

... in comparative settler colonialism, including Palestine, and courses in postcolonial theory, Asian American studies, and US imperialism. Elina Siltanen was university lecturer at the Department of English, University of Turku at the time of writing this article, and now works at the University of Eastern...

.... If I do a panel, whether fairly low-keyed or high-powered, let us say on the African American community, the audience will be, for the most part, African Americans. There will be very few Hispanics, very few Asians. If I do a panel on Asian Americans, almost no one who is not Asian American will show...

... research for the redesigned Purdue OWL Web site. In addition to her writing center work, she maintains a Web site where she posts her stories on issues relating to Asian American and Hapa culture and identity. Jerry Farber is professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State...

... include the literature of the American South, Asian American literature, pedagogy of literature, com- parative race and ethnic studies, and global diaspora studies. In addition, she directs the University Honors Program, where she works to create a cur- riculum that emphasizes interdisciplinary...