Kent A. Ono 
A Companion to Asian American Studies 

A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20
previously published essays that have played an important
historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies
as a field.

* Essays are drawn from international publications, from the
1970s to the present

* Includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, feminism,
sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness,
hybridity, and diasporic consciousness

* Features a useful introduction by the editor reviewing the
selections, and outlining future possibilities for the field

* Can be used alongside Asian American Studies After Critical
Mass, edited by Kent A. Ono, for a complete reference to Asian
American Studies.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface viii

Acknowledgments x

Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies
1

Kent A. Ono

Part I Defining Conversations in Asian American
Studies

Psychology

1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health 17

Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue

2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of
Chinese America 35

Ben R. Tong

3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to
Tong’s Criticisms 73

Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue

History

4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 83

L. Ling-chi Wang

5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography
91

Sucheng Chan

6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 108

Elaine H. Kim

7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan
117

Ronald Takaki

Literature and Feminism

8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake
(excerpt) 133

Frank Chin

9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese
American Critic Choose between

Feminism and Heroism? 157

King-Kok Cheung

Part II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies

10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An
Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature
196

Elaine H. Kim

12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the
Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215

Keith Osajima

13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago’s
Filipino American Community since 1925 226

Barbara M. Posadas

14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn
235

Richard Fung

15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian
American Differences 254

Lisa Lowe

16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian
American Writer in Late Capitalism 276

E. San Juan, Jr.

17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile
296

Oscar V. Campomanes

18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the
Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary
319

David Palumbo-Liu

19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation:
Filipinos in the United States 332

Yen Le Espiritu

20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian
American Studies 350

David L. Eng

Index 370

Om författaren

Kent A. Ono is Professor of Asian American Studies and Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is also Director of the Asian American Studies Program. He is co-author, with John Sloop, of Shifting Borders (2002), and co-editor of Enterprise Zones (1996).