Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections And Divergences / Edition 1

Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations around gender, class, sexuality, and generation reveal new processes as well as the demographic diversity of today's Asian American population. The case studies gathered here speak to the fluidity of these communities and to the need for new analytic approaches to account for the similarities and differences between them. Taken together, these essays forcefully argue that it is time to replace the outworn concept of a monolithic Asian America. Author Biography: is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. , Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington, is the author of (Temple).\