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

Chang, Robert S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0814716113 ISBN 13: 9780814716113

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

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?
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-- a fact Chang criticizes as harmful to Asian Americans. Defining the many "borders" that operate in positive and negative ways to construct America as we know it, Chang 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.
"Has profound political implications for race relations in the new century"
—Michigan Law Review, May 2001

Su questo libro

L'autore

Robert S. Chang is Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

Product Description

Book by Chang Robert

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814716113
• ISBN 13: 9780814716113
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile