kitty
03-20-2003, 10:03 AM
While the field of Asian American studies is arguably new and still searching for its place, it seems to already have fallen into several traps inherent with a budding ethnic study. Many of the early discussions on the Asian American diaspora focus on immigration, inter-generational conflict, and the search for a definition of Asian American outside of the black-white dualism.
Recently, a new perspective has emerged. While it was touched upon by Gary Okihiro in his celebrated essay ‘When and Where I Enter’, the necessary integration of gender and class into Asian American racial identity is more deeply examined in Espiritu’s book ‘Asian American Women and Men’. Class and particularly gender, Espiritu argues, cannot be divorced from a study of Asians in America, and therefore Espiritu strives to examine Asian Americans from a seamless integration of each of these perspectives.
full story (http://yellowworld.org/comments.php?id=10619_0_1_0_C15)
Recently, a new perspective has emerged. While it was touched upon by Gary Okihiro in his celebrated essay ‘When and Where I Enter’, the necessary integration of gender and class into Asian American racial identity is more deeply examined in Espiritu’s book ‘Asian American Women and Men’. Class and particularly gender, Espiritu argues, cannot be divorced from a study of Asians in America, and therefore Espiritu strives to examine Asian Americans from a seamless integration of each of these perspectives.
full story (http://yellowworld.org/comments.php?id=10619_0_1_0_C15)