Format:
1 online resource (309 pages)
ISBN:
9780813537511
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Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience-one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians across the Americas have been shaped by the social dynamics and politics of settlement locations as much as by transnational connections and the economic forces of globalization. Contributors bring new insights to the unique situations of Asian communities previously overlooked by scholars, such as Vietnamese Canadians and the Lao living in Rhode Island. Other topics include Chinese laborers and merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, Afro-Amerasians in America, and the politics of second-generation Indian American youth culture. Together the essays provide a valuable comparative portrait of Asians across the Americas. Engaging issues of diaspora, transnational social practice and community building, gender, identity, institutionalized racism, and deterritoriality, this volume presents fresh perspectives on displacement, opening the topic up to a wider, more interdisciplinary terrain of inquiry and teaching.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Frameworks -- Chapter One: Asian American Displacements -- Chapter Two: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian American Studies: Positions and Debates -- Part Two: Displacements and Diasporas: Historical and Cultural Studies Perspectives -- Chapter Three: Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities -- Chapter Four: Images of the Chinese in West Indian History -- Chapter Five: On Coolies and Shopkeepers: The Chinese as Huagong (Laborers) and Huashang (Merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean -- Chapter Six: From Japanese to Nikkei and Back: Integration Strategies of Japanese Immigrants and Their Descendants in Brazil -- Chapter Seven: In the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Displacements -- Part Three: Displacements and Diasporas: Anthropological Perspectives -- Chapter Eight: Lived Simultaneity and Discourses of Diasporic Difference -- Chapter Nine: From Refugees to Transmigrants: The Vietnamese in Canada -- Chapter Ten: Between Necessity and Choice: Rhode Island Lao American Women -- Chapter Eleven: Mixed Desires: Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth Culture -- Part Four: Opening the Dialogue -- Chapter Twelve: Crossing Borders of Disciplines and Departments -- Chapter Thirteen: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Asian American Studies: Open Systems, Closed Minds -- Chapter Fourteen: The Ordeal of Ethnic Studies in the Age of Globalization -- Contributors -- Index.
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Acknowledgments; Part One: Frameworks ; Chapter One: Asian American Displacements; Chapter Two: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian American Studies: Positions and Debates ; Part Two: Displacements and Diasporas: Historical and Cultural Studies Perspectives ; Chapter Three: Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities; Chapter Four: Images of the Chinese in West Indian History; Chapter Five: On Coolies and Shopkeepers: The Chinese as Huagong (Laborers) and Huashang (Merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean
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Chapter Six: From Japanese to Nikkei and Back: Integration Strategies of Japanese Immigrants and Their Descendants in BrazilChapter Seven: In the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Displacements; Part Three: Displacements and Diasporas: Anthropological Perspectives ; Chapter Eight: Lived Simultaneity and Discourses of Diasporic Difference; Chapter Nine: From Refugees to Transmigrants: The Vietnamese in Canada; Chapter Ten: Between Necessity and Choice: Rhode Island Lao American Women
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Chapter Eleven: Mixed Desires: Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth CulturePart Four: Opening the Dialogue; Chapter Twelve: Crossing Borders of Disciplines and Departments; Chapter Thirteen: Anthropology, Asian Studies, Asian American Studies: Open Systems, Closed Minds; Chapter Fourteen: The Ordeal of Ethnic Studies in the Age of Globalization; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813536101
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780813536101
Language:
English
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