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" Emerging from mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection that considers-almost fifty years after its student protest founding--the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has at times and-more provocatively, has not-responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education. "--

1. The promise of human rights for disabled people and the reality of neoliberalism / Mark Sherry -- 2. The new humanitarianism : neoliberalsim, poverty and the creation of disability / Maria Berghs -- 3. Media, disability, and human rights / Armineh Soorenian -- 4. Volunteering as tribute : disability, globalization and The hunger games / Anna Mae Duane -- 5. Structural and cultural rights in Australian disability employment policy / Sarah Parker Harris, Randall Owen and Karen R. Fisher -- 6. Disability in humanitarian emergencies in India : towards an inclusive approach / Vanmala Hiranandani -- 7. Monitoring disability : the question of the 'human' in human rights projects / Tanya Titchkosky -- 8. The specter of vulnerability and disabled bodies in protest / Eunjung Kim -- 9. Persons with disabilities in international humanitarian law : paternalism, protectionism or rights? / Janet E. Lord -- 10. United nation's policy and the intersex community / Ethan Levine -- 11. HIV/AIDS, disability and socio-economic rights in South Africa / Lydia Apon Strehlau -- 12. The overrepresentation of black children in special education and the human rights to education / Jennifer Bronson -- 13. "Becoming disabled" : towards the political anatomy of the body / Nirmala Erevelles.

"Disability studies scholars and activists have long criticized and critiqued so-termed 'charitable' approaches to disability where the capitalization of individual disabled bodies to invoke pity are historically, socially, and politically circumscribed by paternalism. Disabled individuals have long advocated for civil and human rights in various locations throughout the globe, yet contemporary human rights discourses problematically co-opt disabled bodies as 'evidence' of harms done under capitalism, war, and other forms of conflict, while humanitarian non-governmental organizations often use disabled bodies to generate resources for their humanitarian projects. It is the connection between civil rights and human rights, and this concomitant relationship between national and global, which foregrounds this groundbreaking book's contention that disability studies productively challenge such human rights paradigms, which troublingly eschew disability rights in favor of exclusionary humanitarianism. It relocates disability from the margins to the center of academic and activist debates over the vexed relationship between human rights and humanitarianism. These considerations thus productively destabilize able-bodied assumptions that undergird definitions of personhood in civil rights and human rights by highlighting intersections between disability, race, gender ethnicity, and sexuality as a way to interrogate the possibilities (and limitations) of human rights as a politicized regime."--Publisher's description

An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a wide range of fields. from law to visual culture to politics, and covers key historical and cultural developments, enabling students to engage directly with the Asian American experience over the past century. The primary sources, organized around keywords, concern multiple geographies and sociopolitical movements, making this compendium valuable for a wide range of historical, ethnic, and cultural study undergraduate programs

A new vocabulary for Asian American studiesBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric considerations of race, ethnicity, migration, immigration, gender, sexuality, and class, this multidisciplinary field engages with a set of concepts profoundly shaped by past and present histories of racialization and social formation. The keywords included in this collection are central to social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies and reflect the ways in which Asian American Studies has transformed scholarly discourses, research agendas, and pedagogical frameworks. Spanning multiple histories, numerous migrations, and diverse populations, Keywords for Asian American Studies reconsiders and recalibrates the ever-shifting borders of Asian American studies as a distinctly interdisciplinary field. Visit keywords.nyupress.org for online essays, teaching resources, and more

Intro -- SERIES EDITOR'S NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- INTRODUCTION -- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts -- What We Are: Three Perspectives on Being Mixed Race in America -- CARLOS ADAMS -- I Was Mixed Race Before It Was Cool -- DEDRIA HUMPHRIES BARKER -- The Girl with the Good Hair -- CARLY BATES -- French Vanilla -- JACKSON BLISS -- When Words Make You Real -- F. DOUGLAS BROWN -- How to Father Mixed Children as a Mixed Parent: A Zuihitsu After Sei Shonagon -- ALISON CARR -- Brown Like Ali -- MONA LISA CHAVEZ-ESQUEDA -- Race for Dinner -- FREDRICK D. KAKINAMI CLOYD -- A Black Japanese Amerasian Being -- SANTANA DEMPSEY -- An Impossible Feat -- TIMEKA DREW -- Nigger Lover -- NAOMI RAQUEL ENRIGHT -- From One Exile to Another -- ANIKA FAJARDO -- None Taken -- LIBERTY FERDA -- The Other Side of the Street -- CHELSEA LEMON FETZER -- Speck -- WAYNE FREEMAN -- The Question -- FRANCES FROST -- There Are Levels to This -- WENDY A. GAUDIN -- Raceless -- HERBERT HARRIS -- Multigenerational Identities -- RENA M. HEINRICH -- The White Wilderness -- VELINA HASU HOUSTON -- Cinnamon and Pearl -- MARK S. JAMES -- Living Color in a Color Blind World -- ALLYSON JEFFREDO -- A Half Tale -- NADINE M. KNIGHT -- The Luxury of Ambiguity -- JEWEL LOVE -- A Beige Christmas -- DEVORAH MAJOR -- Educated to Shy -- JANE MARCHANT -- A Century of Progress -- RACHEL MASILAMANI -- Two Kinds of People, A Graphic Narrative -- JENI MCFARLAND -- Hair Like Ariel's -- ABRA MIMS -- Being Seen -- VIA PERKINS -- What We Call Ourselves -- EMAN RIMAWI -- But You Don't Look Like . . . -- CHARLES MATTHEW SNYDER -- Negotiating Worlds Black and White -- LILY ANNE WELTY TAMAI -- Mixed Race Mama -- KYLA KUPFERSTEIN TORRES -- Whose Girl Are You? -- DIANA EMIKO TSUCHIDA -- The Key to Curiosity -- JENNY TURNER -- Black and White Thinking -- MAYA WASHINGTON -- The Mixed Question