LEADER 03439nam 22004933u 450 001 9910455509403321 005 20211006004403.0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000765510 035 $a(EBL)432843 035 $a(OCoLC)427508649 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432843 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000765510 100 $a20131216d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aContemporary Asian American Communities$b[electronic resource] $eIntersections And Divergences 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 225 1 $aAsian American History & Cultu 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-56639-937-8 327 $aContents; 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 IDENTITY 327 $a7. ""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 STATES 327 $a13. 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; Index 330 $aOnce thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoization, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation. Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations 410 0$aAsian American History & Cultu 606 $aAsian Americans 606 $aEthnic identity 606 $aSocial conditions 606 $aUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aAsian Americans. 615 4$aEthnic identity. 615 4$aSocial conditions. 615 4$aUnited States. 676 $a305.895073 700 $aVo$b Linda Trinh$0950217 701 $aBonus$b Rick$0950218 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455509403321 996 $aContemporary Asian American Communities$92148250 997 $aUNINA