Chapter 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Re sis tance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique 1
4. Part I. Ethnic Studies Revisited
5. Chapter 1. Five De cades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet 21
6. Chapter 2. Has Asian American Studies Failed? 36
7. Chapter 3. The Racial Studies Proj ect: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus 48
8. Chapter 4. Planned Obsolescence, Strategic Re sis tance: Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and the Neoliberal University 66
9. Chapter 5. Un - homing Asian American Studies: Refusals and the Politics of Commitment 82
10. Part II. Displaced Subjects
11. Chapter 6. No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades 101
12. Chapter 7. Outsourcing, Terror, and Transnational South Asia 115
13. Chapter 8. Asian American Studies and Palestine: The Accidental and Reluctant Pioneer 132
14. Chapter 9. Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States 150
15. Part III. Remapping Asia, Recalibrating Asian Amer i ca
16. Chapter 10. Transpacific Entanglements 175
17. Chapter 11. Tensions, Engagements, Aspirations: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Filipino American Studies 190
18. Chapter 12. Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era 205
19. Chapter 13. Asians Are the New . . . What? 220
20. Part IV. Toward an Asian American Ethic of Care
21. Chapter 14. Asian Americans, Disability, and the Model Minority Myth 241
22. Chapter 15. Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection 254
23. Chapter 16. What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul) 268
24. Chapter 17. An Ethics of Generosity 281
25. Afterword. Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling 299
26. Acknowledgments 309
27. Contributors 311
28. Index 317