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



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Autore: Chiang Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies [[electronic resource] ] : Autonomy and Representation in the University / / Mark Chiang Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; London, [England] : , : New York University Press, , 2009
©2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina: 371.829/95073
Soggetto topico: 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)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: American
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illuminating
innovative
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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
Titolo autorizzato: The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-9001-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819296203321
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