Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections And Divergences

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Contents Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: ON INTERSECTIONS AND DIVERGENCES 1 Rick Bonus and Linda Trinh Va Part I Communities in Transition: Spaces and Practices 1. ASIAN AND LATINO IMMIGRATION AND THE REVITALIZATION OF SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN 27 Tarry Hum 2. THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF A TAIWANESE CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY 45 Eileen Chia-Ching Fung 3. SOUTHEAST ASIANS IN THE HOUSE: MULTIPLE LAYERS OF IDENTITY 60 Russell !eung 4. GAY ASIAN MEN IN Los ANGELES BEFORE THE 1980s 75 Eric C. Wat 5. Pilipino ka ba? INTERNET DISCUSSIONS IN THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY 89 Emily Noelle Ignacio Part II Communities in Transformation: Identities and Generations 6. PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICANS AND ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY 105 Debbie Hippolite Wright and Paul Spickard Copyrighted Material VIII CONTENTS 7. "ELIGIBLE" TO BE JAPANESE AMERICAN: MULTIRACIALITY IN BASKETBALL LEAGUES AND BEAUTY PAGEANTS 120 Rebecca Chiyoko King 8. YOUNG ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS IN Los ANGELES: A COMMUNITY IN TRANSITION 134 Pensri Ho 9. INTERNALIZED STEREOTYPES AND SHAME: THE STRUGGLES OF 1.5-GENERATION KOREAN AMERICANS IN HAWAI'I 147 Mary Yu Danico 10. ASIAN IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURIAL CHILDREN 161 Lisa Sun-Hee Park Part III Communities of Alternatives: Representations and Politics 11. IMAGINING PANETHNIC COMMUNITY AND PERFORMING IDENTITY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON'S Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book 178 Karen Har-Yen Chow 12. ADDRESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES 191 Margaret Abraham 13. ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS AND URBAN POLITICS 202 Edward J. W Park 14. THE POLITICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC CONTEXTS FOR INCORPORATING ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 216 Jiannbin Lee Shiao 15. How PUBLIC-POLICY REFORMS SHAPE, AND REVEAL THE SHAPE OF, ASIAN AMERICA 229 Andrew Leong About the Contributors 249 Index 251 Copyrighted Material ...