Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Writing Asian America: Locating the Field and the Home 1. Performing Ethnography in Asian American Communities: Beyond the Insider-versus-Outsider Perspective Linda Trinh Vo 2. Researching One's Own: Negotiating Co-ethnicity in the Field Miliann Kang 3. Chineseness across Borders: A Multi-Sited Investigation of Chinese Diaspora Identities Andrea Louie Part II: The Sites of Identity and Community 4. Of Palengke and Beauty Pageants: Filipino American-Style Politics in Southern California Rick Bonus 5. Making the Biopolitical Subject: Cambodian Immigrants, Refugee Medicine and Cultural Citizenship in California Aihwa Ong 6. Everyday Identity Work at an Asian Pacific AIDS Organization Gina Masequesmay 7. Betrayal, Class Fantasies and the Filipino Nation in Daly City Benito M. Vergara, Jr. 8. Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conception of Marriage and Gender in the Korean American Community Kyeyoung Park Part III: Beyond Asian America and Back 9. Identity in the Diaspora: Surprising Voices Karen Leonard 10. Forged Transnationality and Oppositional Cosmopolitanism Louisa Schein 11. Cultural Encompass: Looking for Direction in the Asian American Comic Book Timothy Keeyen Choy Contributors