A Companion to Asian American Studies

A Companion to Asian American Studies is one of the first volumes of its kind to bring an expressly cultural studies perspective to Asian American studies. In a field long dominated by social scientific scholarship, this volume represents the so-called coming of age of Asian American studies, with a brand of scholarship that spans the humanities as well as the social sciences. In addition to long-standing and important social scientific discussions about Asian Americans–on immigration, model minority status, mixed-race identity, the Companion embraces topics crucial to the cultural studies agenda, including: sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, feminism, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness. The anthology is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field. Divided into sections covering psychology, history, literature, feminism, and current work in the field, this Companion is a summation of an important and increasingly vibrant field of study. This book can be used in conjunction with the Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, also edited b