Karin Aguilar-San Juan Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan Recent documents in Karin Aguilar-San Juan en-us Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:50:32 PST 3600 Gazing/Colonial: Looking at the Vietnamese American Community in Orange County and Boston http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/13 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/13 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:01:53 PDT Karin Aguilar-San Juan Landmarks in Literature by Asian American Lesbians http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/12 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/12 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:56:32 PDT Karin Aguilar-San Juan Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Boston and Orange County http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/11 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/11 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:50:45 PDT Karin Aguilar-San Juan Marketplace Multiculturalism: Packaging and Selling Vietnamese America http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/10 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/10 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:47:33 PDT Karin Aguilar-San Juan Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/9 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/9 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:57:46 PDT In this chapter, I explore the ideas of “home,” “community,” and “experience” as central but problematic concepts for queer Asian Americans. The chapter serves to open the book Q&A: Queer in Asian America, and was re-anthologized five years later in the Feminist Theory Reader, a Women’s Studies venue.

]]> Karin Aguilar-San Juan Feminism Across Our Generations http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/8 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/8 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:52:21 PDT In this essay, my mother (a professor of Women’s Studies) and I explore our relationships to feminism as a theory and as a political practice from our distinctive perspectives as Filipina and Filipina American. This book is the first full-length scholarly treatment of the experiences of Filipina women in the United States. I am developing a project on global feminism, the Philippines, and U.S. empire.

]]> Karin Aguilar-San Juan et al. Taking Charge in Lake Wobegon: Youth Organizing, Anti-Racism, and Social Justice in the Twin Cities http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/7 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/7 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:48:00 PDT Youth Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field; this anthology came out of a workshop sponsored by the Ford Foundation in October 2004 whose goal was to stimulate new community-based research. The editors are key figures in the field. I am working on a book-length project on Youth, Race, and Democracy.

]]> Karin Aguilar-San Juan Strategies for Racial Justice in a Post-Racial Era: A Response and Comment for Ian Haney López http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/6 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/6 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:45:49 PST Karin Aguilar-San Juan Asian Americans Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/5 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/5 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:08:05 PDT Karin Aguilar-San Juan Going Home: Enacting Justice in Queer Asian America http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/4 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/4 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:26:05 PST Karin Aguilar-San Juan Fields of Dreams: Place, Race, and Memory in Boston's Vietnamese American Community.. http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/3 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/3 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:23:33 PST In this article I explain how and why Boston's Vietnamese American story deserves its own telling. Boston's urban landscape presents particular challenges to community-building that require tailor-made strategies on the part of community leaders. They are dealing with Boston's challenges by creating a place that is distinct from Chinatown and laden with its own claims to the past and visions of the future. Seeking to understand the complex relationship between place, race, and memory in the community-building process, I have interviewed most of the community's English-speaking movers and shakers since 1994.

]]> Karin Aguilar-San Juan "Who's Discovering Whom?" Review of Dream Jungle, a novel by Jessica Hagedorn, and an interview with the author http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/2 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/2 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:06:18 PST Karin Aguilar-San Juan Asian Americans The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/1 http://works.bepress.com/karin_aguilar_san_juan/1 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:01:35 PST Karin Aguilar-San Juan Asian Americans