Summary:

Across the Pacific explores in descriptive and critical ways how
transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American
communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the
international context of the Pacific Rim. In eight ground-breaking
essays, contributors address new meanings and practices of Asian
Americans in the global transformation of the post-Civil Rights,
post-Cold War, postmodern and postcolonial era. Asian Americans have
always been a trans-Pacific community—and are now more than ever.
Since the changes in immigration laws in 1965, after decades of
exclusion from the United States, Asians are once more immigrating to
the U.S. Entering the U.S. upon the culmination of the Civil Rights
movement, Asians becoming Asian Americans have joined a
self-consciously multicultural society. Asian economies have roared
onto the world stage, creating new markets while circulating capital
and labor at an unprecedented scale and intensity, thereby helping
drive the forces of modern globalization. Considering issues of
diaspora, transmigrancy, assimilation, institutionalized racism, and
community, Across the Pacific offers essays on such topics as the
impact of the new migrations on Asian American subjectivity and
politics, the role of Asian Americans in Pacific rim economies, and
cultural expressions of dislocation among contemporary Asian American
writers. It asks: If Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge
builders across the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks,
the promises, the perils?

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Dewey Class: 305 -- Social groups

Book Details:

Physical Description: 232 pages
Edition Info: Paperback; 2000-08-03

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