An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture

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Index Accidental Asian, The. See under Liu, Eric African American(s), black Americans, 17, 21, 51–52, 75, 77, 139, 144, 181n86; history, 80, 181n86; incorporation of, as citizens, 17–18, 177n66, 179n74, 181n85; as “majority minority,” 31, 184n12; politics, 77, 192n27, 194nn53, 54, 203n65; relations with Asians and Latinos, 35, 107, 116, 138–39, 144–45, 181n86, 194n53, 207–8n9, 209–10n19, 212–13n39, 213n40; representations of, 34, 42–43, 51, 73, 74; segregation of, 17, 21. See also blackness alien(s), citizens, 17–22, 23 121, 181n86; the “forever foreign,” 39; national, 17–19, 21, 75, 86–87, 115, 117, 119, 164, 178–79n72, 179n73; others, 14, 16, 29, 121, 128, 176nn55, 56, 181n13. See also under Asian(s) alienation, of Asians and Latinos, 16, 20, 80, 119, 145, 179–80n74, 181n85, 185n23, 199n1; of the body, 197–98n114; cultural and political, 100, 103, 201n20; as effect of modernity, 21, 181n86; socioeconomic, 78 alien land laws, 19 allegory, of the arrival of the subject, 61; of desire, 48, 128; of ethical responsibility, 38, 128; of intellectual work, 23, 97–98, 100, 104, 119 120–23, 130; as literary form, 122–23 American exceptionalism, 20, 36, 93, 136, 146, 180nn79, 80, 198n122 American Indians. See Native Americans Arar, Maher, 163–64, 170 Asian(s), alien or other, 16–21, 119, 179– 80n74, 181n86; diaspora, 70, 196n73; exclusion,16, 17, 19–20, 33, 179–80n74, 180n81, 181n86; immigrants, 19–21, 83, 179–80n74, 181–82n86, 184n17, 194n54. See also under alienation; black/white binary Asian American(s), category of, 3, 24, 64–65, 195n61; history, 69, 85, 92, 179n74; identity or subjectivity, 22, 32, 33–49, 55–62, 76–78, 183n4, 185n23, 185–86n24, 186n36, 195n61; literature, 22, 27; men, 81, 196n65; politics, 77, 80, 107, 136–39, 149–50, 153, 154, 203n65, 209nn16, 18; population, 31, 184n12; in the sciences, 152–53; studies (see under ethnic studies); women, 35, 38, 127, 186n34, 187–88n59. See also under African American(s), relations with Asians and Latinos; Chinese (Americans); Cold War politics; Filipino (Americans); Japanese (Americans); Korean (Americans); model minority assimilation, as alienation, 71; as betrayal, 22, 67, 74, 81, 92, 194n53; education 238 / index Chin, Frank, The Chickencoop Chinaman, 22, 33–38, 39, 46, 61, 63, 185n24, 186n36, 188n68 Chinese (Americans), activism and politics in Wen Ho Lee case, 134–39, 152, 214n48; Exclusion Act, 179–80n79; Chinatown, 82–83; diaspora, 83–84, 146, 158, 196n73, 209n18, 216n82; representations of, 23, 29, 34–35, 40–44, 52– 57, 84, 127–65, 165, 185n23, 208n15. See also under Communism citizenship, bars to, 18–20; citizen as normative subject, 21, 30, 104, 184n17; “generic,” 65, 70, 75; promise of equal protection and freedom for citizens, 16, 64–65, 149, 178–79n72, 181n85; racialized, 17–19, 80, 163–64, 177–78n67, 181n85, 181–82n86; and sovereignty, 161, 163, 176n59; and whiteness, 80 civil rights discourse and politics, as counter-discourse, 16, 138; and human rights, 154–59, 216n79; in the juridical arena, 54; national limits of, 32, 80, 145, 153, 154, 178n72; post-Civil Rights era and politics, 53, 77, 78, 110; reforms resulting from, 31, 164 class, and education, 74, 88, 108, 110, 124, global formation of, 31–32, 184n16; intellectuals as a, 98–100, 195n61, 199n4, 200n14, 204n78; as marker of minoritarian subjectivity, 63, 74; middle-, 71, 74, 80, 86, 110, 181–82n86, 194–95n58, 195n62; national boundaries of, 181–82n86; and race, 74–81, 94, 193nn43, 44, 194–95n58, 195n62 Cold War politics, and Asian Americans, 136, 150; bilateralism, 152; intelligence, 151; and Cuba(ns), 137, 140–44, 212n37; post- (see New World Order); refugees, 31, 39, 208nn10, 11; and September 11, 160, 162, 216n2 Communism, anti-, 152, 205–6n6; in China, 144, 154, 158, 216n81; in Cuba, 142, 144, 158, 210n24, 211n25, 212n36, 214n48; specter of, in New World Order, 24, 134, 136, 144, 158 community, 199n2; divide between university and, 23, 101–4, 122, 201nn19, 20; future terrain of, 63; loyalty to, 96, 98; traitor to, 96, 106, 108, 120 as mode for, 90, 109, 114–17, 126; limits of, 73, 103; to the nation, 2, 17–23, 30, 32, 65–69, 71–96, 107, 109, 120–27, 141, 162, 166, 185n19, 188n66, 194nn54, 56, 206n6; as socioeconomic access, 64; into whiteness, 23, 76–77, 95, 193n44. See also model minority; neoconservative politics benevolent assimilation, 180n81 betrayal, acts and instances of, 22–30, 40, 44–47, 71, 76, 95–99, 109–17, 129–34, 150–51, 175–76n49...