Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies Book

	Acknowledgment
	Beyond Railroads and Internment: Comments on the Past, Present, and Future of Asian American Studies	11
	Postmodernism and Asian American Studies: A Critical Appropriation	21
	Postmodernism from the Edge: Asian American Identities	37
	Toward an Asian (American) Cultural Studies: Postmodernism and the "Peril of Yellow Capital and Labor"	47
	"Sheer Elegance": The Intersection of Woman and "the Orient"	57
	The Site of Class	67
	Asian American Studies Needs Class Analysis	75
	Common Cause? Asian American History and Western American History	83
	Conjuring Ghosts in a Journey East	101
	Effacing Specific Visions: Viewing "Here" from "Elsewhere"	115
	The Growing Asian Population in the American South: Defining the Process of Immigrant Community Development	123
	Asiancy: Making Space for Asian Canadian Writing	135
	The Incorporation of Gender in Minority Discourses: Does the Body Play a Part?	153
	The Politics of Possession: The Negotiation of Identity in American in Disguise, Homebase, and Farewell to Manzanar	157
	No More "Tight Red Cheongsams": Asian American Women's Treatment of Fashion	171
	Chinese/Asian American Men in the 1990s: Displacement, Impersonation, Paternity, and Extinction in David Wong Louie's Pangs of Love	181
	"Across That Ocean Is ...": Trans-Oceanic Revaluations of Marriage in Filipino American Fiction	193
	"La Malinche Tortilla Factory": Negotiating the Iconography of Americanization, 1920-1950	201
	Theorizing Marginality: Violence against Korean Women	217
	Race, Gender, and the Law: Asian American Women and Rape	233
	Asian Pacific Queer Space	251
	ExclusionInclusion	261
	Locating Myself within Histories of Dislocation	265
	Bachelor Society: Deviant Heterosexuality and Asian American Historiography	271
	Oscar Wilde in Japan: Aestheticism, Orientalism, and the Derealization of the Homosexual	281
	Dissecting Desire: Symbolic Domination and Strategies of Resistance among Filipino Gay Men in New York	291
	Addressing Differences: A Look at the 1989 Asian Pacific Lesbian Network Retreat, Santa Cruz	301
	The Sites of Race and Ethnicity: Social Constructions of Consequence	309
	Beyond Racial Identity Politics: Toward a Liberation Theory for Multicultural Democracy	315
	Race as a Site of Discipline and Punish	335
	The Influence of "Black Peril" on "Yellow Peril" in Nineteenth-Century America	349
	The "Middleman" Theory of Culture: An Analysis of Korean and African American Relations	365
	Japanese Independent Sugar Planters: A Study of the Ukekibi System in Hawaii	377
	The Filipino American Diaspora: Sites of Space, Time, and Ethnicity	387
	Covering Obasan and the Narrative of Internment	401
	The Sites of Race and Ethnicity in Psychological Research on Asian Americans	413
	The New Outsiders: Vietnamese American Students in Higher Education	421
	Communities at Risk: Asian Pacific Islanders and AIDS	429
	Ethnic Studies and the New Multiculturalism: The Founding Principles of Puerto Rican Studies Revisited	435
	Notes on Contributors	447