The cultural capital of Asian American studies
Subtitle: autonomy and representation in the university
By: Mark Chiang.
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780814717004; 9780814717011
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher); Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States; Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- United States; Autonomy; Asian Americans -- Politics and government; Ethnology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- Case studies; Minorities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Institutionalization and the crisis of representation; title: From cultural politics to cultural capital; title: Contradictions in the emergence of ethnic studies; title: Disciplinarity and the political identity of Asian American studies; title: The political economy of minority literature; title: Asian American cultural capital and the crisis of legitimation.