Jennifer Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Min Zhou is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Asian American Studies Interdepartment Degree Program and the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the award-winning author of several books, including Contemporary Asian America, Growing Up American and Chinatown.
Introduction: The Making of Culture
Identity
and Ethnicity among Asian American Youth
Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee PART I: Population Dynamics and Diverse Contexts of Growing Up American 1. Coming of Age at the Turn of the Twnty-First Century: A Demographic Profile of Asian American Youth
Min Zhou 2. Intermarriage and Multiracial Identification: The Asian American Experience and Implications for Changing Color Lines
Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean PART II: Historical Patterns of Cultural Practices among Asian American Youth 3. Rizal Day Queen Contests
Filipino Nationalism
and Femininity
Arleen de Vera 4. Nisei Daughters' Courtship and Romance in Los Angeles before World War II
Valerie J. Matsumoto 5. Hell's A Poppin': Asian American Women's Youth Consumer Culture
Shirley Jennifer Lim 6. Shifting Ethnic Identity and Consciousness: U.S.-born Chinese American Youth in the 1930s and 1950s
Gloria Heyung Chun PART III: Emerging Youth Cultural Forms and Practices 7. Instant Karma: The Commercialization of Asian Indian Culture
Sabeen Sandhu 8. Transnational Cultural Practices of Chinese Immigrant Youth and Parachute Kids
Christy Chiang-Hom 9. Reinventing the Wheel: Import Car Racing in Southern California
Victoria Namkung 10. No Lattés Here: Asian American Youth and the Cyber Café Obsession
Mary Yu Danico and Linda Trinh Võ 11. Filipinotown and the DJ Scene: Cultural Expression and Identity Affirmation of Filipino American Youth in Los Angeles
Lakandiwa M. de Leon 12. A Shortcut to the American Dream? Vietnamese Youth Gangs in Little Saigon
James Diego Vigil
Steve C. Yun
and Jesse Cheng 13. Lost in the Fray: Cambodian American Youth in Providence
Rhode Island
Sody Lay PART IV: Negotiating and Affirming Identity
Space
and Choice 14. Made in the U.S.A.: Second-Generation Korean American Campus Evangelicals
Rebecca Y. Kim 15. Performing Race
Negotiating Identity: Asian American Professional Actors in Hollywood
Nancy Wang Yuen 16. Searching for Home: Voices of Gay Asian American Youth in West Hollywood
Mark Tristan Ng 17. Marriage Dilemmas: Partner Choices and Constraints for Korean Americans in New York City
Sara S. Lee 18. A Commentary on Young Asian American Activists from the 1960s to the Present
William Wei Conclusion: Reflections
Thoughts
and Directions for Future Research
Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou
