Dorinne K. Kondo

Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora

Contents: Investments and interventions (Un)Disciplined subjects: (de)colonizing the academy? Dorinne Kondo University of Southern California (Re)Viewing an asian American diaspora: multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the northwest Asian American theatre Karen Shimakawa University of California, Davis Creating performative communities: Through text, time, and space Russell Leong Cross-discipline trafficking: whats justice got to do with it? Sharon K. Hom City University of New York School of Law at Queens Translating knowledge Notes toward a conversation between area studies and diasporic studies Dipesh Chakrabarty University of Chicago Hualing Niehs mulberry and peach in sinocentric, Asian American, and feminist critical practices Sau-ling C. WongUniversity of California, Berkeley Biyuti in everyday life: performance, citizenship, and survival among Filipinos in the United States Martin F. ManalansanUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Missile internationalism Kuan-hsing Chen National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan Para-sites, or, constituting borders Leading questions Rey Chow Brown University Modelling the nation: the Asian/American split David Palumbo-liu Stanford University In-betweens in a hybrid nation: construction of Japanese American identity in postwar Japan Yoshikuni Igarashi Vanderbilt University Conjunctural identities, academic adjacencies R. RadhakrishnanUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Asian/American epistemologies Epistemological shifts: national ontology and the new Asian immigrant Lisa Lowe University of California, San Diego Imaginary borders Kandice Chuh University of Marylend, College Park To tell the truth and not get trapped: Why interethnic antiracism matters now George LipsitzUniversity of California, San Diego