Flashpoints for Asian American Studies - by Cathy Schlund-Vials (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Born out of mid-century social movements, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection which considers the contemporary possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection that considers-almost fifty years after its student protest founding--the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and--more provocatively, has not--responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This is a book I have been waiting to read, especially in the era of and Black Lives Matter and BDS activism and with Trump's election, as it offers important lessons for faculty, administrators, and students about how Asian American studies can resist the logics of multiculturalism and austerity.--Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Flashpoints for Asian American Studies offers an ambitious, bracing, and wide-ranging critique of Asian American studies by practitioners within the field. It calls for a wholesale reconsideration of how Asian American studies operates inside and outside universities; how it theorizes, selects, and defines its subjects and constituencies; and how it functions as an academic and political project. This volume presents a highly original reassessment from the inside of Asian American studies that is unparalleled in terms of its breadth and sustainment.<b>-----Daryl Maeda, <i>University of Colorado, Boulde</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Viet Thanh Nguyen (Afterword By) </b><br> Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of <i>The Sympathizer</i>, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as the short story collection, <i>The Refugees</i>. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. <p/><b>Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Edited By) </b><br> Cathy J. Schlund-Vials is Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She is also the director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (UConn). She is the author of <i>Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing and War</i>, <i>Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work</i>. <p/>
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