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Articulates a new and innovative model of cultural and academic politics, illuminating the position of ethnic studies within the American university

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Institutionalization and the Crisis of Representation 1 From Cultural Politics to Cultural Capital 2 Contradictions in the emergence of ethnic Studies 3 Disciplinarity and the Political Identity of Asian American Studies 4 The Political economy of Minority Literature 5 Asian American Cultural Capital and the Crisis of Legitimation Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

About the Author

Mark Chiang is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Reviews

"Chiang directly challenges many shibboleths of Asian American Studies. For just this reason, The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies is certain to be a watershed work in the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies." James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara