Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State (Critical America) - Softcover

Buch 17 von 45: Critical America

Chang, Robert

 
9780814716113: Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State (Critical America)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0814716113 ISBN 13: 9780814716113
Verlag: New York University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Does "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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert S. Chang is Professor of Law and founder and Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law. He is the author of our Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law and the Nation-State and Minority Relations: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation.

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Verlag
New York University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814716113
ISBN 13 
9780814716113
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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