Reflections on Fred Lee’s “Contours of Asian American Political Theory: Introductions and Polemics”

ABSTRACT

Fred Lee’s “Contours of Asian American Political Theory: Introductions and Polemics” is a welcome engagement with the idea of Asian American political theory. In particular, it usefully illuminates dilemmas both substantive and disciplinary that challenge its conventional coherence. I argue that such dilemmas ought to be kept central for its transformative vitality.

KEYWORDS:

• Asian American politics
• intersectionality
• methods
• political theory
• race studies

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