Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. ‘‘Can We Get Along?’’ 25
6. 2. Performing Race 60
7. 3. Allegories of Asian American Experience 95
8. 4. Ethnicity and the Political Economy of Difference 132
9. 5. ‘‘Culture Wars’’ Revisited 165
10. 6. Questioning Contemporary Cultural Studies 203
11. 7. Postcolonial Criticism and the Vicissitudes of Uneven Development 246
12. 8. For a Permanent Cultural Revolution 288
13. Afterword 331
14. Works Cited 383
15. Index 417