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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480572803321

Autore

Chiang Mark

Titolo

The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies [[electronic resource] ] : Autonomy and Representation in the University / / Mark Chiang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, [England] : , : New York University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8147-9001-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

371.829/95073

Soggetti

Minorities - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Ethnology - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Asian Americans - Politics and government

Autonomy

Ethnicity - Political aspects - United States

Asian Americans - Ethnic identity

Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States

Asian Americans - Study and teaching (Higher)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Institutionalization and the crisis of representation -- From cultural politics to cultural capital -- Contradictions in the emergence of ethnic studies -- Disciplinarity and the political identity of Asian American studies -- The political economy of minority literature -- Asian American cultural capital and the crisis of legitimation.

Sommario/riassunto

Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental advisory boards, planning and developing areas of the curriculum, university pressures eventually dictated their expulsion. At that moment in history, the



intellectual work of the field was split off from its relation to the community at large, giving rise to the entire problematic of representa