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Disoriented - Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State

Inglese · Tascabile

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Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of European American and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first-generation Hmong refugees and fifth-generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American?In Disoriented: Asian Americans, Law, and the Nation-State, Robert Chang examines the current discourse on race and law and the implications of postmodern theory and affirmative action -- all of which have largely excluded Asian Americans -- in order to develop a theory of critical Asian American legal studies.Demonstrating that the ongoing debate surrounding multiculturalism and immigration in the U.S. is really a struggle over the meaning of "America", Chang reveals how the construction of Asian American-ness has become a necessary component in stabilizing a national American identity. He analyzes the position of Asian Americans within America's black/white racial paradigm, how "the family" operates as a stand-in for race and nation, and how the figure of the immigrant embodies a central contradiction in allegories of America.

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Robert Chang

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Does "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? This book examines the discourse on race and law.

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Autori Robert Chang, Robert S. Chang
Con la collaborazione di Ian Shapiro (Editore)
Editore New York University Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 01.10.2000
 
EAN 9780814716113
ISBN 978-0-8147-1611-3
Pagine 248
Dimensioni 151 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
Peso 272 g
Serie Critical America
Critical America
Categoria Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia

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