Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Performing Ethnography in Asian American Communities: Beyond the Insider-versus-Outsider Perspective	17
2	Researching One's Own: Negotiating Co-ethnicity in the Field	38
3	Chineseness across Borders: A Multisited Investigation of Chinese Diaspora Identities	49
4	Of Palengkes and Beauty Pageants: Filipino American-Style Politics in Southern California	67
5	Making the Biopolitical Subject: Cambodian Immigrants, Refugee Medicine, and Cultural Citizenship in California	85
6	Everyday Identity Work at an Asian Pacific AIDS Organization	113
7	Betrayal, Class Fantasies, and the Filipino Nation in Daly City	139
8	Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conceptions of Marriage and Gender in the Korean American Community	159
9	Identity in the Diaspora: Surprising Voices	177
10	Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism	199
11	Cultural Encompass: Looking for Direction in The Asian American Comic Book	216
	Contributors	239