A Companion to Asian American Studies

A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Essays are drawn from international publications, from the 1970s to the present Includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness Features a useful introduction by the editor reviewing the selections, and outlining future possibilities for the field Can be used alongside Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, edited by Kent A. Ono, for a complete reference to Asian American Studies.

A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20previously published essays that have played an importanthistorical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studiesas a field.* Essays are drawn from international publications, from the1970s to the present* Includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, feminismsexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queernesshybridity, and diasporic consciousness* Features a useful introduction by the editor reviewing theselections, and outlining future possibilities for the field* Can be used alongside Asian American Studies After CriticalMass, edited by Kent A. Ono, for a complete reference to AsianAmerican Studies.

Preface viiiAcknowledgments xRetracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies1Kent A. OnoPart I Defining Conversations in Asian AmericanStudiesPsychology1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health 17Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology ofChinese America 35Ben R. Tong3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply toTong's Criticisms 73Stanley Sue and Derald W. SueHistory4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 83L. Ling-chi Wang5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography91Sucheng Chan6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 108Elaine H. Kim7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan117Ronald TakakiLiterature and Feminism8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake(excerpt) 133Frank Chin9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a ChineseAmerican Critic Choose betweenFeminism and Heroism? 157King-Kok CheungPart II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: AnAnalysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177Evelyn Nakano Glenn11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature196Elaine H. Kim12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of thePopular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215Keith Osajima13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago'sFilipino American Community since 1925 226Barbara M. Posadas14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn235Richard Fung15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking AsianAmerican Differences 254Lisa Lowe16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the AsianAmerican Writer in Late Capitalism 276E. San Juan, Jr.17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile296Oscar V. Campomanes18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On theFunctions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary319David Palumbo-Liu19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation:Filipinos in the United States 332Yen Le Espiritu20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in AsianAmerican Studies 350David L. EngIndex 370