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).

“An extremely helpful collection for teaching that locates the field’s beginnings and, importantly, charts its intellectual power and influence.” Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History

• Preface viiiAcknowledgments xRetracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies 1Kent A. OnoPart I Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies Psychology1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health 17Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America 35Ben R. Tong3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong’s Criticisms 73Stanley Sue and Derald W. SueHistory4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 83L. Ling-chi Wang5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography 91Sucheng Chan6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore 108Elaine H. Kim7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan 117Ronald TakakiLiterature and Feminism8 Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake (excerpt) 133Frank Chin9 The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose betweenFeminism and Heroism? 157King-Kok CheungPart II Influential Essays in Asian American Studies10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies 177Evelyn Nakano Glenn11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature 196Elaine H. Kim12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s 215Keith Osajima13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago’s Filipino American Community since 1925 226Barbara M. Posadas14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn 235Richard Fung15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences 254Lisa Lowe16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism 276E. San Juan, Jr.17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile 296Oscar V. Campomanes18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary 319David Palumbo-Liu19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation: Filipinos in the United States 332Yen Le Espiritu20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies 350David L. EngIndex 370