Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State - Couverture souple

Livre 17 sur 45: Critical America

Chang, Robert

 
9780814716113: Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State
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ISBN 10 : 0814716113 ISBN 13 : 9780814716113
Editeur : New York University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814716113
ISBN 13 
9780814716113
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780814715215: Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0814715214 ISBN 13 :  9780814715215
Editeur : New York University Press, 1999
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