Asian American Studies Now: A Critical Reader

Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors, summarizes and defines the current shape of this rapidly changing field, addressing topics such as transnationalism, U.S. imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, social justice, and pedagogy.

Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen have selected essays for the significance of their contribution to the field and their clarity, brevity, and accessibility to readers with little to no prior knowledge of Asian American studies. Featuring both reprints of seminal articles and groundbreaking texts, as well as bold new scholarship, Asian American Studies Now addresses the new circumstances, new communities, and new concerns that are reconstituting Asian America.

• Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
• I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir
• Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
• My Beloved World
• The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (The Penguin Library of American Indian History)
• One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
• Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty (Reacting to the Past)
• Keywords for Asian American Studies
• Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
• Contemporary Asian America (third edition): A Multidisciplinary Reader