Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, published by Duke University Press.

"Kandice Chuh argues that in the current study of Asian Americans, the critique of social inequality must overcome the impossible insistence on a uniform ethnic subject. She performs a daring deconstruction of the recurrence to ideas of authenticity and identity, discusses the pitfalls of essentialized concepts of 'activism' and 'community,' and encourages us to put the case of Asian Americans towards a more general critique of racialized U.S. society. Her intervention challenges us to think differently, to ‘imagine otherwise.’"-Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics “Imagine Otherwise is a provocative work. It questions the terms in which Asian American studies have been understood and offers a set of exciting theoretical alternatives, each of which is substantiated by close readings of literary texts. Our understanding of Asian American subjectivity is significantly enhanced in the process.”-David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

• Preface: Imagine Otherwise ixIntroduction: On Asian Americanist Critique 11. Against Uniform Subjectivity: Remembering "Filipino America” 312. Nikkei Internment: Determined Identities/Undecidable Meanings 583. "One Hundred Percent Korean”: On Space and Subjectivity 854. (Dis)Owning America 112Conclusion: When Difference Meets Itself 147Notes 153Works Cited 187Index 211

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, published by Duke University Press.

"Kandice Chuh argues that in the current study of Asian Americans, the critique of social inequality must overcome the impossible insistence on a uniform ethnic subject. She performs a daring deconstruction of the recurrence to ideas of authenticity and identity, discusses the pitfalls of essentialized concepts of 'activism' and 'community,' and encourages us to put the case of Asian Americans towards a more general critique of racialized U.S. society. Her intervention challenges us to think differently, to ‘imagine otherwise.’"-Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics “Imagine Otherwise is a provocative work. It questions the terms in which Asian American studies have been understood and offers a set of exciting theoretical alternatives, each of which is substantiated by close readings of literary texts. Our understanding of Asian American subjectivity is significantly enhanced in the process.”-David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

• Preface: Imagine Otherwise ixIntroduction: On Asian Americanist Critique 11. Against Uniform Subjectivity: Remembering "Filipino America” 312. Nikkei Internment: Determined Identities/Undecidable Meanings 583. "One Hundred Percent Korean”: On Space and Subjectivity 854. (Dis)Owning America 112Conclusion: When Difference Meets Itself 147Notes 153Works Cited 187Index 211

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English, Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, published by Duke University Press.

"Kandice Chuh argues that in the current study of Asian Americans, the critique of social inequality must overcome the impossible insistence on a uniform ethnic subject. She performs a daring deconstruction of the recurrence to ideas of authenticity and identity, discusses the pitfalls of essentialized concepts of 'activism' and 'community,' and encourages us to put the case of Asian Americans towards a more general critique of racialized U.S. society. Her intervention challenges us to think differently, to ‘imagine otherwise.’"-Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics “Imagine Otherwise is a provocative work. It questions the terms in which Asian American studies have been understood and offers a set of exciting theoretical alternatives, each of which is substantiated by close readings of literary texts. Our understanding of Asian American subjectivity is significantly enhanced in the process.”-David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

• Preface: Imagine Otherwise ixIntroduction: On Asian Americanist Critique 11. Against Uniform Subjectivity: Remembering "Filipino America” 312. Nikkei Internment: Determined Identities/Undecidable Meanings 583. "One Hundred Percent Korean”: On Space and Subjectivity 854. (Dis)Owning America 112Conclusion: When Difference Meets Itself 147Notes 153Works Cited 187Index 211