LEADER 03856nam 22006494a 450 001 9910778988203321 005 20230207222740.0 010 $a0-8147-7239-0 010 $a0-585-33904-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814772393 035 $a(CKB)111004368613052 035 $a(EBL)865877 035 $a(OCoLC)784884471 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11151262 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10029360 035 $a(PQKB)11276406 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865877 035 $a(OCoLC)45885685 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10442 035 $a(DE-B1597)548026 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814772393 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865877 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10032527 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368613052 100 $a19981228d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDisoriented$b[electronic resource] $eAsian Americans, law, and the nation-state /$fRobert S. Chang 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aCritical America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-1521-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 139-171) and index. 327 $aDreaming in black and white: racial-sexual policing in the Birth of a Nation, The Cheat, and Who Killed Vincent Chin? -- Centering the immigrant in the international imagination -- Why we need a critical Asian American legal studies -- Narrative space -- Narrative account of Asian America -- Mapping Asian American legal studies -- Reverse racism! : affirmative action, the family, and the dream that is America -- One America : an essay in three parts. 330 $aDoes "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? In Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation State, Robert Chang examines the current discourse on race and law and the implications of postmodern theory and affirmative action-all of which have largely excluded Asian Americans-in order to develop a theory of critical Asian American legal studies. Demonstrating that the ongoing debate surrounding multiculturalism and immigration in the U.S. is really a struggle over the meaning of "America," Chang reveals how the construction of Asian American-ness has become a necessary component in stabilizing a national American identity-- a fact Chang criticizes as harmful to Asian Americans. Defining the many "borders" that operate in positive and negative ways to construct America as we know it, Chang analyzes the position of Asian Americans within America's black/white racial paradigm, how "the family" operates as a stand-in for race and nation, and how the figure of the immigrant embodies a central contradiction in allegories of America. "Has profound political implications for race relations in the new century"-Michigan Law Review, May 2001 410 0$aCritical America. 606 $aAsian Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc 606 $aRace discrimination$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aAsian Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAsian Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aRace discrimination$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aAsian Americans$xSocial conditions. 676 $a342.73/0873 700 $aChang$b Robert S$01584988 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778988203321 996 $aDisoriented$93869178 997 $aUNINA