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activism, 1, 98, 123–130, 136–137, 144–145, 252, 312–313; Hawaiian, 312–313. See also responsibility; social purpose actors, Asian American, 13, 36, 179–181 aesthetics, 2, 7, 33, 49, 75, 87, 96, 102, 116, 127, 131, 137, 199, 246, 272–274, 299 African Americans, 13, 135, 162, 243, 246, 261–262, 364. See also community, African American AIDS, 128 Aiiieeeee!, 5–6, 209, 235, 246–248. See also Big Aiiieeeee!; Chin, Frank Alcatraz, 166 Alexander, Meena, 2–3, 12; “Art of Pariahs,” 88; “Brown Skins, What Mask?” 71; Fault Lines, 71, 79–81, 86–87; Manhattan Music, 83–84, 86; Nampally Road, 75, 79, 87; “Rights of Passage,” 70; “Rites of Sense,” 71, 73; River and Bridge, 88, 90n. 1; Shock of Arrival, 71, 81, 86–89, 90n. 1 Alien Land Law, 362, 372 ali‘i (Hawaiian royalty), 303, 312–313 American dream, 10, 292–293 Ancheta, Shirley, 30 Angel Island (San Francisco), 238, 243 Angelou, Maya, 129, 133–134 Asia, 112, 239–240, 257–258, 284, 299 Asian American literature, 116, 216, 265; attitudes toward, 127, 264; boundaries of, 6–7, 10; definitions of, 4, 6–7, 215, 258; emergence of, 5–6; expectations concerning, 7–8; and mainstream Index 388 American literature, 11, 264; marketing of, 32–33; tradition , 299. See also Asian American writer Asian Americans, 4, 42, 49, 125, 135, 145, 147, 241, 244, 267, 278, 299; attitudes toward, 220, 299, 307–308; definitions of, 4–8, 258; differences among, 1, 10, 241, 299; labeling of, 10, 32, 33, 201, 220, 295; representation of, 2, 229; political importance of, 30, 149; stereotypes of, 2, 5, 7, 10, 199–201, 207, 223; as subject, 223–224, 226–228. See also Burmese Americans; Chinese Americans; Filipino Americans; Japanese Americans; Korean Americans; South Asian Americans; Thai Americans; Vietnamese Americans Asian American studies, 8–10, 238 Asian American Studies Center (UCLA), 260 Asian American writers, 1–2, 4–5, 13–14, 28, 106, 109, 168, 201–202, 208, 227, 234, 236, 264, 279, 295–296, 298–299, 307–308, 315, 345–348, 350–351, 366, 368, 379; attitude toward the term, 1, 4, 14, 32, 45, 49, 67, 79, 97–98, 109, 145–146, 200–201, 295, 307–309, 350; autonomy of, 8, 279, 297; censorship of, 8, 26, 79, 111, 290, 298–299, 351; as community spokesperson , 147–148, 297; critical receptions of, 32, 65, 79, 147, 183, 199, 228, 267, 297, 339, 352–353; differences among, 9–10; difficulties encountered by, 2, 8, 97, 107–110, 117, 135–136, 200–201, 217, 227–228, 278, 296, 309; expectations for, 2, 8, 77, 147–148, 267; ghettoization of, 2, 13–15, 184, 200–201, 216, 220, 278–279; Hawai‘i, 307; integrity of, 178–179, 183, 325–326; marketing of, 32, 67, 201; opportunities for, 109–110, 200–201, 227, 264, 278, 296. See also Asian American literature; audience; writing Asian heroic tradition, 6, 114, 168, 196 Asian Women’s Shelter, 144 assimilation, 10, 86–87, 207, 219–220, 247, 293 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 8, 343 audience, 2, 4, 6, 9, 32, 46, 49, 55, 65, 79, 95–96, 110–111, 133, 146–147, 167–171, 177–178, 195–196, 296–297, 304, 316, 352–353; divisions between American and Asian, 114, 297; divisions between ethnic and mainstream, 2, 6, 32, 46, 49, 55, 65, 95, 110–112, 147, 168, 177–178, 183–184, 195–196, 199–200, 279, 296–297; divisions 389 between local and mainland, 305; and gender, 167; in Japanese American newspapers , 352. See also Asian American writers authenticity, 2, 6, 124–125, 127, 129, 244, 265, 298 autobiography, 48, 59, 62, 89, 130, 198, 243, 246, 300, 306 Baldwin, James, 52 Basement Workshop (New York), 30 Beauvoir, Simone de, 289 beauty, 28, 155, 171, 245–246, 267 Bhagavad Gita, 277. See also religion Bible, 128, 132, 276. See also religion Big Aiiieeeee!, 6, 204. See also Aiiieeeee!; Chin, Frank Blanchot, Maurice, 98, 103n. 2 Blood into Ink, 87, 90n. 1 body, 99–100, 239, 241; “colonization ” of, 241; female, 99–100, 102, 108, 124, 132, 136–137, 141–142; and politics , 243; and space, 99 Bradbury, Ray, 62 Brazil, 321–324, 326–328; Issei in, 333; Japanese immigration to, 326, 332–333, 336–337; multinational companies in, 330. See also community, Japanese Brazilian Bridges, Nikki Sawada, 360 Bronzeville, 364. See also Little Tokyo Buber...