"Does "Asian American" denote on ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first-generation Hmong refugees and fifth-generation Chinese Americans both as Asian Amer…
"As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian Ameri…
"Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity - a straitjacketing, according t…
Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity--a straitjacketing, according to …
"Depictions of Asian American men as effeminate or asexual pervade popular movies. Hollywood has made clear that Asian American men lack the qualities inherent to the heroic heterosexual male. This restricting, circumscribed vision of masculinity - a straitjacketing, according t…
"This is an anthology of writing about what it is really like to grow up Asian-Australian. Including contributions from established writers, public figures and exciting new talents, this diverse and unpredictable collection throws out the cliches and takes readers behind the ste…
"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"...peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values...in …
Introduction : feeding identity, subverting stereotypes : food and consumption in contemporary Asian American bildungsromane -- Consuming Asian American history in Frank Chin's Donald Duk -- To eat, to buy, to be : consumption as identity in Lois Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the…
"The global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and Asia produces transnational meanings no longer rooted in a separation between 'Asian' and 'American.' Drawing New Color Lines explores the culture, production, and history of contem…
