03821nam 2200553Ia 450 991081391070332120200520144314.0(CKB)1000000000765510(EBL)432843(OCoLC)427508649(MiAaPQ)EBC432843(EXLCZ)99100000000076551020011004d2002 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContemporary Asian American communities intersections and divergences /edited by Linda Trinh Vo and Rick Bonus1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20021 online resource (266 p.)Asian American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-56639-937-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: ON INTERSECTIONS AND DIVERGENCES; Part I Communities in Transition: Spaces and Practices; 1. ASIAN AND LATINO IMMIGRATION AND THE REVITALIZATION OF SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN; 2. THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF A TAIWANESE CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY; 3. SOUTHEAST ASIANS IN THE HOUSE: MULTIPLE LAYERS OF IDENTITY; 4. GAY ASIAN MEN IN LOS ANGELES BEFORE THE 1980's; 5. Pilipino ka ba? INTERNET DISCUSSIONS IN THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY; Part II Communities in Transformation: Identities and Generations; 6. PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICANS AND ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY7. ""ELIGIBLE"" TO BE JAPANESE AMERICAN: MULTIRACIALITY IN BASKETBALL LEAGUES AND BEAUTY PAGEANTS8. YOUNG ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS IN LOS ANGELES: A COMMUNITY IN TRANSITION; 9. INTERNALIZED STEREOTYPES AND SHAME: THE STRUGGLES OF 1.5-GENERATION KOREAN AMERICANS IN HAWAI'I; 10. ASIAN IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURIAL CHILDREN; Part III Communities of Alternatives: Representations and Politics; 11. IMAGINING PANETHNIC COMMUNITY AND PERFORMING IDENTITY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON'S Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book; 12. ADDRESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES13. ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS AND URBAN POLITICS14. THE POLITICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC CONTEXTS FOR INCORPORATING ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES; 15. HOW PUBLIC-POLICY REFORMS SHAPE, AND REVEAL THE SHAPE OF, ASIAN AMERICA; About the Contributors; IndexOnce thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoization, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation. Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formationsAsian American history and culture.Asian AmericansSocial conditionsAsian AmericansEthnic identityEthnic neighborhoodsUnited StatesAsiaEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsAsian AmericansSocial conditions.Asian AmericansEthnic identity.Ethnic neighborhoods305.895073Vo Linda Trinh1964-1755535Bonus Rick1962-1755536MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813910703321Contemporary Asian American communities4192360UNINA