Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Literacy, Race, and an American Ethos
Part 1. Asian American Language and Literacy Rights in the 1970s
Chapter 1. Language and Racial Injury in Lau v. Nichols
Race, Ethnicity, and the Idea of the (Non-)Native Speaker: Lau v. Nichols in Context
Denying Race: Lau in the Courts
“Looking to the Bottom”: The Importance of Self-Determination in Language Education
Looking to the Bottom in the Asian American Movement
Chapter 2. Gidra and the Extracurriculum of Asian American Publications
The Extracurriculum of College Writing
Creating Gidra: An Ideology of Self-Determination and Yellow Power
Radical Writing? Writing for the Movement
The Legacy of Asian American Publications, Student Organizations, and the Movement
Part 2. Asian American Rhetorics against Racial Injury in the 2000s
Chapter 3. Campus Racial Politics and a “Rhetoric of Injury”
“To Come Together and Create a Movement”: VAC’s Beginnings
Working toward Solidarity: VAC’s Growth as an Activist Student Organization
Available Subject Positions: What Does Diversity Ask Students to Become?
VAC Students and a Liberal Logic of Inclusion
What Happens after Inclusion? (or When No One Mentions Race)
Searching for a “Critical Race Praxis”
Chapter 4. Asian American Rhetorical Memory, a “Memory That Is Only Sometimes Our Own”
Renewed Interest in the Rhetorical Art of Memory
Recollecting “Gook” through Asian American Memories
Engaging the Public with Memory
Toward a “Deliberate Act of Remembering”
Chapter 5. “I WANT A THICKER ACCENT”: Revisionary Public Texts
Performativity: From How to Do Things with Words to Subversive Performatives
“And We Are So Much More”: A Vietnamese American Curriculum
Re-Presentations of Vietnamese American Women in a Culture Night Performance
“You Make Whatever America Is”: Performance Art and Textual Art
Performing Race through Language, Literacy, & Rhetoric
Afterword: Writing against Racial Injury, Writing to Remember
Works Cited
Index