...Sridevi Menon Duke University Press 2006 Where Is West Asia in Asian America? “A si a” and the Politics of Space in A si an A meric a In the weeks after 9/11, the white supremacist Mark Stroman shot and Sridevi...

... and Melodie Calvert. New York:Routledge. Wang, Oliver. 1998. Asian Americans and hip-hop. Asian Week, 12-28 November. www.asianweek.com/111298/coverstory.html . Race, Sex, and Nerds FROM BLACK GEEKS TO ASIAN...

...Chandan Reddy Duke University Press 2005 Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family RE VIEWING THE C A SE FOR HOMOSE XUAL A SYLUM...

...Grace Kyungwon Hong This essay deals with representations of a global, mobile Asian capitalist class as a particularly twenty-first-century incarnation of Model Minority discourse to ask what historical and epistemological erasures are required for this particular version of Model Minority...

...Summer Kim Lee This article considers how the act of staying in, rather than going (or coming) out, gives shape to the racial performativity of Asian American asociality. What the author calls “Asian American asociality” speaks to how Asian Americans have been racially figured as a problem...

...Eric Tang 3. tang 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 55 Collateral Damage SOUTHEAST ASIAN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES On 22 August 1996, President Bill Clinton signed...

...Edlie L. Wong This article investigates the possibilities of storytelling and black Atlantic literature in forging new critical approaches to the archive of New World Asian indenture. It also emphasizes the significance of the comparative study of bonded labor to our understanding of “the Atlantic...

...Eric Estuar Reyes The presence of Filipinos as corporeal and discursive subjects within both America and Asian America has long been contested. On one hand, the dynamic juridical status of Filipinos in America has ranged from American colonial subjects and American nationals to naturalized...

... America. The essay also foregrounds a methodological question, one that underlines the vexed relationship between visual histories of South Asia and the visual economies of race and religion in the United States. Viewing Shah's drawings demands a different perspective on South Asian American visual...

... was not entirely disrupted: the echoes of the life around the camps were not entirely silenced in the camps; rather, the camps resounded the world. The understanding of both camps in their sharp differences is at issue in the essay—Communist against Jew, Muslim against Judaic and Zionist, Asian against European...

..., and the continuing detention of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians, the crisis shows no signs of abating. But it is in exactly this moment of nationalist, nativist, and militaristic excess that we might develop greater acuity not only in our critique of prevailing politics, but in the imagined alternatives...

...Gayatri Gopinath Duke University Press 2005 Bollywood Spectacles QUEER DI A SPORIC CRITIQUE IN THE AFTERM ATH OF 9/11 Since 9/11, South Asian racialization in the United...

... that give those words meaning. Thus, the film offers an explanation for why Vang’s claim to racial victimization could not hold. © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 hate speech racial harassment violence Hmong Asian American “Whether or Not Words Were Said . . . ” Chai Soua Vang, G r a n...

.... Is the transnational adoptee an immigrant? Is she, as in those cases such as Borshay Liem’s, Social Text 76, Vol. 21, No. 3, Fall 2003. Copyright © 2003 by David L. Eng. an Asian American? Even more, is her adoptive family Asian American? How is the “otherness...

... the traditional expecta- tions (education, marriage) of her immigrant parents and the racism of British society toward Asians.1 The same-sex eroticism between Jess and Jules is toyed with endlessly throughout the fi lm—they both fall for their male soccer coach, they are mistaken as lesbian lovers embracing...

... with the Normative: Queer Theory and Black History Amy Villarejo 69 Of Our Normative Strivings: African American Studies and the Histories of Sexuality Roderick A. Ferguson 85 Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family: Reviewing the Case for Homosexual...

... a discrepant cos- mopolitanism, I turn to the global impact of South Asian English rather than the simple abstraction of English-in-general. Much has already been made of the various peculiarities of South Asian English...

..., Asian Americans are at least 25 percent of the current student body. A similar surprise awaited me when Louise and I went back to my old neighborhood in Jackson Heights in Queens County where, because of restrictive...

... true.) In other words, I’m inviting attention to the logic/world within which it is sensible to ask, what is Asian American literature about? Or, in perhaps more skeptical and sometimes aggressive form, what is Asian American/ queer/black/feminist/brown about that piece of writing, music...