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The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
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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

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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

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

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"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

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