...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 Menon killed a store clerk from Pakistan...

...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 for and...

...Chandan Reddy Duke University Press 2005 Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family RE VIEWING THE C A SE FOR HOMOSE XUAL A SYLUM IN THE CONTE X T OF FA MILY RIGHTS...

...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...

...Eric Tang Duke University Press 2000 3. tang 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 55 Collateral Damage SOUTHEAST ASIAN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES On 22 August 1996, President...

... , edited by Jennifer Terry 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 AMERICAN HIPSTERS The development of...

...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 and...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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 Tor i...

.... David L. Eng is professor of English, comparative literature, and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke University Press). Currently he is completing “Reparations and...

... next degradation; “things will get worse before they get better” seemed to be the mantra of despair. This may still be so: With Bush’s threatened expansion of the war beyond Afghanistan, U.S. antipathy toward the Geneva Conventions, and the continuing detention of Arabs, Muslims, and South Asians...

... Black [Delhi]) and is currently working on a monograph titled “Beyond the Nation: Parti- tion Effects and Modern South Asia.” Eng-Beng Lim specializes in theater, drama, and performance studies with a focus on transnational, Asian, and queer issues. He is an assistant profes- sor of English at...

... professor of English, comparative literature, and Asian American studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke University Press). Currently he is completing “Reparations and the Human,” a study on...

...  Catherine Prendergast and Nancy Abelmann 37 Where Is West Asia in Asian America? “Asia” and the Politics of Space in Asian America  Sridevi Menon 55 Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and the Politics of Depressing Speech...

...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 States has taken place Gayatri Gopinath through curious and...

... 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 Asylum in the Context of Family Rights Chandan Reddy 101...

... of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke University Press). He is also the editor, with David Kazanjian, of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (University of California Press), as well as the editor, with Alice Y. Hom, of Q&A...

... 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” of the...