The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University

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245 Academic freedom. See Freedom Aesthetic: experience, 35–36; value, 36, 184, 205–6. See also Politics Affirmative action, 37, 115 Afrocentrism, 110 Aiiieeeee!, 19, 134–35, 139, 141–56, 168–69, 175, 185 Alquizola, Marilyn, 60–62, 71–72, 117–19 Althusser, Louis, 27 Amerasia (journal). See Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies Anderson, James D., 221n25 Antonio, Carolyn, 226n63 Anxiety of representation. See Representation , anxiety of Aoude, Ibrahim, 231n4 Apparatus, 131–32 Area studies. See Asian Studies Arnold, Matthew, 153 Asante, Molefi, 110 Asiacentrism, 110 Asian American: community, 6–7, 24, 42, 54, 60, 62, 98, 112, 115–17, 119, 141, 150–51, 202–5, 209; demographics , 6–7, 19; field, 10, 12–14, 21, 54, 55, 86–87, 89, 117–18, 159, 189; identity, 14, 18, 40, 45–46, 48–50, 58, 88, 98, 117, 128, 137, 139, 176, 189, 191; movement, 6, 8, 14–5, 18, 20, 29, 85, 115, 135, 137, 142; as term, 6, 13, 49, 51, 54, 55. See also Community, autonomy Assimilation, 84, 136, 139, 146, 147, 152, 155, 203–4 Assimilationist ideal, 48 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 1–3, 5, 12, 45, 93–94, 173, 176–84, 190, 193, 208, 213n2; fiction award, 1, 4–5, 12, 93–94, 173, 176, 178, 180–84, 192 Asian studies, 11 Autonomy: of aesthetic, 8, 100; of Asian American Studies, 5–6, 60–63, 57, 72; of faculty, 5, 9, 11, 59–60, 65, 70–73; of literary field, 141, 149; of university, 5, 70–72 Baym, Nina, 229n21 Bennett, William, 37, 154 Big Aiiieeeee! The, 152–54, 185 Black Panthers, 66–67, 76 Black Students Union (BSU), 18, 63, 65–70, 76, 78; demands of, 63 Black studies, 3, 18, 57, 63–68, 73–74, 77, 79, 107–9, 111, 113. See also Curriculum Bloom, Allan, 154 Blu’s Hanging, 1–4, 20–21, 42, 45, 93–94, 173–81, 185–87, 189–93, 196, 198, 200, 202, 206 Bonacich, Edna, 213n3 Index 246 Index Bourdieu, Pierre, 8–10, 15–17, 23, 26–28, 30, 34, 37, 42, 51, 79, 81, 84, 90–92, 116, 184, 191, 215n8, 217n24 Bow, Leslie, 228n3 Brigham, J. C., 188 Bulosan, Carlos, 229n16 Bush, George W, 5 Butler, Judith, 104–6 Cambridge University, 69 Campos, Caroline, 178 Canon, 8, 31–33, 35–39, 41–42; “wars,” 17, 24, 30, 129 Cha, Theresa, 19, 96, 120, 131–33 Chan, Jeffery, 142 Chan, Sucheng, 208–11, 220n5 Chang, Diana, 147, 229n16 Chang, Gordon, 98–102, 108–10 Cheng, Anne, 131 Cheng, Lucy, 213n3 Cheung, King–Kok, 223n17, 228n3 Chin, Frank, 19, 142–44, 147, 150, 153–54, 157, 192 Chinese Exclusion Act, 6 Chu, Patricia, 150 Chuh, Kandice, 3–4, 42, 45, 52, 55, 193, 224n27, 228n3, 230n1, 232n18 Civil rights, 74–75, 115 College in Crisis, 69 Community: autonomy, 9, 11, 17, 60, 209; education, 73, 107; commodification , 26 Consciousness, 13, 57, 73–74, 77, 116, 143, 154–55 Conway, M. Margaret, 88, 217n31 Credentialization, 37–38, 41, 80, 84– 85, 114, 129 Cremin, Lawrence, 220n13 Crisis of representation. See Representation Critical Filipino Studies Collective, 5 Cultural nationalism, 2, 19, 29, 44, 58, 96, 112, 114; and aesthetics, 127, 129, 175, 179; and Asian Americans, 134–36; and Asian American studies , 71–73; and Black studies, 74–75; and cultural capital, 85; local, 199 Curriculum: Black studies: 57, 74; classical , 97; core, 34; liberal arts, 58, 74, 113 Deleuze, Gilles, 222n45 Dictée, 19, 96, 120, 125, 129–35, 136, 158 Du Bois, W. E. B., 74 Eliot, T. S., 153–54 Espiritu, Yen le, 182, 213n6, 214n2, 217n31, 220n5, 226n63 Experimental College, 57, 63, 65, 70, 74, 113 Feminism, 44, 96, 99, 104 Fiction award (AAAS), 1, 4–5, 12, 93–94, 173, 176, 178, 180–84, 192 Field, 23–24, 26–29, 52 Filipino American Studies Caucus, 5 Foucault, Michel, 222n45, 225n40 Freedom: academic, 5–6; artistic, 141, 151, 153, 179; of speech, 5 Freud, Sigmund, 154 Fujikane, Candace, 190, 198, 206, 230n2, 231n3 Fujino, Diane, 226n63 Fuss, Diana, 48 Garrett, Jimmy, 66, 78 Geiger, Roger, 223n5 Gibney, Margot, 222n3 Governance: of Asian American studies programs, 9, 60–61, 209; of colleges and universities, 3, 69 Graff, Gerald, 216n19, 223n5 Index 247 Grain of Sand, A (folk trio), 143–44 Gramsci, Antonio, 33 Guattari, Félix, 222n45 Guha, Ranajit, 213n6 Guillory, John, 16–17, 24, 30–37, 39, 42, 84, 90, 96...