Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies

Cindy I-Fen Cheng is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the award-winning author of Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War (New York University Press, 2013).

• List of Tables, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction: On Reclaiming the Political Project of Asian American Studies, PART ONE: Shifting Paradigms, 1. On Racial Stereotyping, 2. On the Asian American Question, 3. Postcolonialism and Asian American Studies, 4. Diaspora as Frame and Object of Analysis in Asian American Studies, 5. American Antipodes: Anna Kazumi Stahl’s Flores de un solo día, PART TWO: War, Colonization, and U.S. Imperialism, 6. The Vietnam War and The “Good Refugee”, 7. Refugee Memoryscape: The Rhetoric of Hmong Refugee Writing, 8. Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge: Cambodian American Memory Work, 9. Asian Settler Colonialism’s Histories, 10. The Strange Career of the Filipino “National”: Empire, Citizenship, and Racial Statecraft, 11. The Arab American Experience: From Invisibility to Heightened Visibility, PART THREE: Globalization, Global Restructuring, and the Question of National Belongings, 12. Popular Music, Globalization, and Asian/America, 13. The Sports Loyalty Test: Asian Athletes and Asian American Cultural Politics, 14. Jeremy Lin, Global Asian American, 15. Beneath Each Layer of Cloth: Chinese Women in the New York City Garment Industry, PART FOUR: Representations Within and Across Nations, 16. The Globality of Af-Pak: U.S. Empire and the Muslim Problem, 17. The Japanese American Transnational Generation: Rethinking the Spatial and Conceptual Boundaries of Asian America, 18. Migration, Citizenship, and Sexuality in Asian/America, 19. From Noxious Quarters to Affluent Ethno-burbs: Race and Space in Asian American History, 20. The Invention of the Model Minority, PART FIVE: Social Change and Political Participation, 21. Asian American Studies and/as Digital Humanities, 22. Asian American Queer and Trans Activisms, 23. “Other”: Reconsidering Asian Exclusion and Immigrant Rights, 24. Afro-Asian Solidarity through Time and Space: Roads Taken and Not Taken, 25. The Political Participation of Asian Americans, Index

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