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authorship, 6, 23–24, 27, 28, 55, 62, 69, 141–43, 145–47, 168, 170–71, 179, 200, 203, 207, 209–11 autobiography: 66, 70; coming-of-age, 7, 22, 71, 73–74, 110 Baldwin, James, 162–63, 166–67 barrio, 35 benign neglect, 57 bildungsroman: anti-, 7, 22, 113–15 black-Korean conflict: 23, 137, 141, 160–69; culturalization of, 161–67 black-white binary of race, 3–4, 161–62 Bonacich, Edna, 165 Bone (Ng), 7, 22–23, 112–34 bootstrapping, 53, 151, 156, 158, 167, 215n10 Bourdieu, Pierre, 155 Broom, Leonard, 86, 217n12 Bush, George W., 157 Cab Called Reliable, A (Kim, P.), 27 capitalism: 14, 20, 46, 52–54, 113, 116, 121, 152, 157, 188, 214n9; conflation with democracy, 156–57, 160; global, 8, 12, 36, 48–49, 53, 117, 215n10 Carpenter, John, 56 Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, 75 Chang, Juliana, 113, 116, 122, 133 Chao, Elaine, 152 Charlie Chan is Dead (Hagedorn), 144 Chen, Tina, 138 Abelmann, Nancy, 219n8 accommodationism, 7, 8, 15, 22, 67–70, 83, 217n9 activism: Indian independence, 126; labor, 121, 131–32 African Americans: 2, 3, 4, 10, 18, 20, 23, 28–29, 50–51, 53, 76, 136, 154, 158–59, 161–63, 166–67, 214n2, 215n10, 219n7, 219n8; and Los Angeles riots, 141 Aiiieeeee! (Chan et al.): 45–46, 59–60, 73, 145, 205, 220n3 (concl.); editors (Jeffery Chan, Frank Chin, Lawson Inada, Shawn Wong), 45, 59–60, 73, 112–13, 128, 145, 204–5; and postracial, 204–5; sensibility of, 45, 112–13, 128, 205 America: dream mythology, 23, 136, 176, 178–79, 192; egalitarianism, 156; exceptionalism, 2–3, 136, 151–52, 157, 215n10 American studies, 3, 14, 15, 19, 44, 62, 67, 109, 113, 135 Americanization. See assimilation army, United States, 89, 91 Asian American Literature (Kim, E.), 60, 81 Asian American studies, 22, 43, 46, 62, 75, 112, 116, 127 assimilation: 30–36, 40, 50, 53, 57–58, 61, 71–72, 92, 97–99, 103–7, 109, 121, 154, 163, 169–77, 180, 185–87, 214n2, 215n10, 215n11; false, 173 Index 232 / index 185–88, 192, 194, 199; professionalmanagerial , 20, 84–88, 96, 139, 147, 155, 181, 188, 217n12; relationship to race 3–6, 19, 43, 135–38, 162, 199, 203–4, 210–12; and transnationalism, 35; turned into culture/privatization of, 3, 6, 7, 11, 18, 21–22, 49–50, 54–59, 61, 72, 98, 115, 177, 203; under, 16, 17, 20–21, 25–31, 38, 53–55, 114, 165–67, 178, 186, 189, 213n1; underemployed, 113; upper, 16, 165–66, 178, 189; visibility of, 202–3, 208, 210–11; warfare, 210, 213n1; working class, 4, 16, 17, 18, 19–21, 29, 109, 113, 118, 155, 189, 193, 198; working poor, 113, 189, 191, 195, 198. See also culturalizations; ghetto/ ghettoization Clifford, James, 82 co-ethnics: 12, 24, 29–31, 36, 38, 54, 76, 120, 124, 139, 142, 146–150, 179, 186, 189; cooperation among, 39–41, 49, 120–21, 151, 190,216n4, 219n9; exploitation of, 41–42, 55, 121, 124, 136–38, 141, 147, 151, 191, 198, 216n4 Confucius, 58, 111, 118, 164 counternarratives, 14, 87, 93, 97, 122 culturalist epistemologies. See culturalizations culturalization: 2, 7, 23, 54–61, 79, 83, 119–26, 134–39, 147, 151, 161, 164, 167–74, 202, 215n10; of class 3, 5, 11, 18, 26–28, 43, 47, 50–58, 72–73, 94–99– 101–4, 114–18, 148, 170, 173–78, 200; depoliticizations of, 124–27; of political economy, 49; reproduction of, 111, 114, 118–20, 122–23 culture: 2–6, 11–15; and aesthetics, 9, 14, 18–19, 24, 28, 44–48, 56, 65, 67, 75, 113, 144–45, 155, 200, 220n1 (concl.); as agency, 11, 14, 21–22, 33–39, 42–47, 49, 55, 58, 114, 120, 187; Asian/Asian American, 2, 5–7, 15, 18, 23, 26, 45, 51–55, 58–61, 78–80, 144, 215n10; clash, 71, 98, 105; commodification of, 49, 56, 59, 66–68, 121, 135–39, 142, 146–47, 151, 169, 197–99, 201–4, 210–11, 215n14; as disease/pathology, 31–37, 40, 47, 50–51, 56–58, 79, 99–105, 121, 161, 186; as economic agency/asset/resource, 38–41, 46–49, 54, 121, 179, 186; economic investment in, 47–49; as imaginative Cheng, Anne, 75, 122 Chicago, 72, 86–87, 217n12 Chicago school of sociology. See sociology Chin, Frank, 7, 22, 45, 58–60, 73, 78, 112–13, 128, 145, 204–5, 220n3 (concl.). See also food pornography China...

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