Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Retracing an intellectual course in Asian American studies , Part I. Defining conversations in Asian American studies ; Chinese-American personality and mental health , The ghetto of the mind : notes on the historical psychology of Chinese America , Chinese-American personality and mental health : a reply to Tong's criticisms , A critique of Strangers from a different shore , Strangers from a different shore as history and historiography , A critique of Strangers from a different shore , A response to King-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan , Come all ye Asian American writers of the real and the fake (excerpt) , The woman warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific : must a Chinese American critic choose between feminism and heroism? , Part II. Influential essays in Asian American studies ; Split household, small producer and dual wage earner : an analysis of Chinese-American family strategies , Defining Asian American realities through literature , Asian Americans as the model minority : an analysis of the popular press image in the 1960s and 1980s , Mestiza girlhood : interracial families in Chicago's Filipino American community since 1925 , Looking for my penis : the eroticized Asian in gay video porn , Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity : making Asian American differences , Beyond identity politics : the predicament of the Asian American writer in late capitalism , Filipinos in the United States and their literature of exile , Los Angeles, Asians, and perverse ventriloquisms : on the functions of Asian America in the recent American imaginary , Colonial oppression, labour importation, and group formation : Filipinos in the United States , Out here and over there : queerness and diaspora in Asian American studies , Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web