Description:Cultural Compass rewrites the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethinic and citizen identity, contributors reconfigure ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the United States. In these eleven essays, scholars in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies reconsider traditional models for ethnographic research.Contents:-- Performing ethnography in Asian American communities: beyond the insider-versus-outsider perspective / Linda Trinh Võ -- Researching one's own: negotiating co-ethnicity in the field / Miliann Kang -- Chineseness across borders: a multisited investigation of Chinese diaspora identities / Andrea Louie -- Of Palengkes and beauty pageants: Filipino American-style politics in Southern California / Rick Bonus -- Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine, and cultural citizenship in California / Aihwa Ong -- Everyday identity work at an Asian Pacific AIDS organization / Gina Masequesmay -- Betrayal, class fantasies, and the Filipino nation in Daly City / Benito M. Vergara Jr. -- Sudden and subtle challenge: disparity in conceptions of marriage and gender in the Korean American community / Kyeyoung Park -- Identity in the diaspora: surprising voices / Karen Leonard -- Forged transnationality and oppositional cosmpolitanism / Louisa Schein -- Cultural encompass: looking for direction in The Asian American comic book / Timothy Keeyen ChoyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America. To get started finding Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America
Description: Cultural Compass rewrites the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethinic and citizen identity, contributors reconfigure ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the United States. In these eleven essays, scholars in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies reconsider traditional models for ethnographic research.Contents:-- Performing ethnography in Asian American communities: beyond the insider-versus-outsider perspective / Linda Trinh Võ -- Researching one's own: negotiating co-ethnicity in the field / Miliann Kang -- Chineseness across borders: a multisited investigation of Chinese diaspora identities / Andrea Louie -- Of Palengkes and beauty pageants: Filipino American-style politics in Southern California / Rick Bonus -- Making the biopolitical subject: Cambodian immigrants, refugee medicine, and cultural citizenship in California / Aihwa Ong -- Everyday identity work at an Asian Pacific AIDS organization / Gina Masequesmay -- Betrayal, class fantasies, and the Filipino nation in Daly City / Benito M. Vergara Jr. -- Sudden and subtle challenge: disparity in conceptions of marriage and gender in the Korean American community / Kyeyoung Park -- Identity in the diaspora: surprising voices / Karen Leonard -- Forged transnationality and oppositional cosmpolitanism / Louisa Schein -- Cultural encompass: looking for direction in The Asian American comic book / Timothy Keeyen ChoyWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America. To get started finding Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.