PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES xi
4. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION xiii
5. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION xvii
6. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xxiii
7. Introduction: Revisiting Contemporary Asian America 1
8. PART I.Claiming Visibility: The Asian American Movement
9. 1. “On Strike!” San Francisco State College Strike, 1968–1969: The Role of Asian American Students 25
10. 2. The “Four Prisons” and the Movements of Liberation: Asian American Activism from the 1960s to the 1990s 60
11. PART II. Traversing Borders: Contemporary Asian Immigration to the United States
12. 3. Contemporary Asian America: Immigration, Demographic Transformation, and Ethnic Formation 101
13. 4. The Waves of War: Refugees, Immigrants, and New Americans from Southeast Asia 129
14. PART III. Ties That Bind: The Immigrant Family and the Ethnic Community
15. 5. New Household Forms, Old Family Values: The Formation and Reproduction of the Filipino Transnational Family in Los Angeles 157
16. 6. The Reorganization of Hmong American Families in Response to Poverty 175
17. 7. Enclaves, Ethnoburbs, and New Patterns of Settlement among Asian Immigrants 193
18. PART IV. Struggling to Get Ahead: Economy and Work
19. 8. Just Getting a Job Is Not Enough: How Indian Americans Navigate the Workplace 217
20. 9. Gender, Migration, and Work: Filipina Health Care Professionals to the United States 236
21. 10. The Making and Transnationalization of an Ethnic Niche: Vietnamese Manicurists 257
22. PART V. Sexuality in Asian America
23. 11. “Tomboys” and “Baklas”: Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Filipino Americans 291
24. 12. No Fats, Femmes, or Asians: The Utility of Critical Race Theory in Examining the Role of Gay Stock Stories in the Marginalization of Gay Asian Men 312
25. PART VI. Race and Asian American Identity
26. 13. Are Asians Black? The Asian American Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Paradigm 333
27. 14. Are Second-Generation Filipinos “Becoming” Asian American or Latino? Historical Colonialism, Culture, and Panethnicity 358
28. 15. Are Asian Americans Becoming White? 378
29. PART VII. Intermarriages and Multiracial Ethnicity
30. 16. Are We “Postracial”? Intermarriage, Multiracial Identification, and Changing Color Lines 391
31. 17. Mapping Multiple Histories of Korean American Transnational Adoption 404
32. PART VIII. Confronting Adversity: Racism, Stereotyping, and Exclusion
33. 18. A Letter to My Sister and a Twenty-Five-Year Anniversary 433
34. 19. “Racial Profiling” in the War on Terror: Cultural Citizenship and South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States 444
35. 20. Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience 464
36. PART IX. Behind the Model Minority
37. 21. Jeremy Lin’s Model Minority Problem 491
38. 22. Continuing Significance of the Model Minority Myth: The Second Generation 497
39. 23. Racial Anxieties, Uncertainties, and Misinformation: A Complex Picture of Asian Americans and Selective College Admissions 508
40. PART X. Multiplicity and Interracial Politics
41. 24. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences 531
42. 25. Critical Thoughts on Asian American Assimilation in the Whitening Literature 554
43. 26. Beyond the Perpetual Foreigner and Model Minority Stereotypes: A Critical Examination of How Asian Americans Are Framed 576
44. 27. Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence from the 2008 National Asian American Survey 600
45. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 627
46. INDEX 631