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...understand it, the drive to institutionalize Asian-American Studies is at least partially an appropriate technique for “reclaiming our agency as subjects”. But at what point does the movement become an exercise in circling the wagons and dwelling on the poignancy of our own experiences? The academy is experiencing a proliferation of Self Interest Studies, but I remain unconvinced of their value. Our inability to get beyond race is undeniably destructive, and I wonder whether the movement might accomplish greater things were it to refuse to participate in the usual and by now tired fetishizing...
Furthermore, institutionalizing Asian- American Studies would also have the counterproductive effect of sequestering such academic activity in one location—so that everyone else in the academy can ignore it. I would argue, rather, that study of the Asian American experience across and from within such diverse disciplines as government, comparative literature and sociology can be more effective in uncovering new knowledge about the Asian-American experience—with the upshot being an ability to inject academic ways of thinking into these disciplines...
...academy already suffers from a considerable lack of inter-disciplinary cross-talk, but those interested in evangelizing the Asian-American experience might accomplish greater things by participating in this tyranny of specialization on their own terms...
Stanford University, for example, established a Comparative Race and Ethnicity Department under which its Asian-American Studies field for students falls...
...discussion was designed to be student-friendly and enticing, with comfortable couches arranged in a circle and Chinese food and sodas laid out for those in attendance. It is the first of two scheduled for this semester to generate interest and awareness in the field of Asian-American Studies...