An interdisciplinary collection of essays, and historical documents, that introduces readers to the many issues fueling the growth of Asian American Studies

Introduction
Part I: Situating Asian America

• When and Where I Enter
• Neither Black nor White
• Detroit Blues
• A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia
• Home Is Where the Han Is
• Native Hawaiians: A Quest for Sovereignty
• Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
• Racism

Part II: History and Memory

• The Chinese Are Coming. How Can We Stop Them?
• Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown
• The Secret Munson Report
• Asian American Struggles for Civil, Political, Economic, and Social Rights
• Out of the Shadows
• The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth
• Why China? Identifying Histories of Transnational Adoption
• The "Four Prisons" and the Movements of Liberation

Part III: Culture, Politics, and Society

• Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization
• Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s-1990s
• Medical, Racist, and Colonial Constructions of Power in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
• Searching for Community
• How to Rehabilitate a Mulatto
• Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident, by A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker/Activist Va-Megn Thoj
• Collateral Damage

Part IV: Pedagogies and Possibilities

• Whither Asian American Studies?
• Freedom Schooling
• Asians on the Rim
• Crafting Solidarities
• Will Not Be Used
• The Struggle over Parcel C
• Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work
• Homes, Borders, and Possibilities