Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community

Teaching Asian America: Diversity and the Problem of Community
ISBN-10
084768735X
ISBN-13
9780847687350
Category
Education
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Description

This innovative volume offers the first sustained examination of the myriad ways Asian American Studies is taught at the university level. Through this lens, this volume illuminates key debates in U.S. society about pedagogy, multiculturalism, diversity, racial and ethnic identities, and communities formed on these bases. Asian American Studies shares critical concerns with other innovative fields that query representation, positionality, voice, and authority in the classroom as well as in the larger society. Acknowledging these issues, twenty-one distinguished contributors illustrate how disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to Asian American Studies can be utilized to make teaching and learning about diversity more effective. Teaching Asian America thus offers new and exciting insights about the state of ethnic studies and about the challenges of pluralism that face us as we move into the twenty-first century.

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