Document Type
Article
Abstract
As Asian Americans join the legal academy in growing numbers, they change the face of the academy and challenge its traditional legal doctrines. The author announces an "'Asian American Moment" in the legal academy and an opportunity to reverse the pattern of discrimination against Asian Americans. Traditional civil rights work and current critical race scholarship fail to address the unique issues for Asian Americans, including nativistic racism and the model minority myth. Space must be made in the legal academy for an Asian American Legal Scholarship and the narratives of Asian Americans. The author asserts that the rational-empirical mode is inadequate as a justification for narrative scholarship and argues for a post-structural basis for Asian American Legal Scholarship. He provides historical examples of how narrative can be used to effect social change. Finally, the author offers a framework for constructing an Asian American Legal Scholarship which acknowledges the tremendous diversity among the disempowered but which also recognizes that it is through solidarity that Asian Americans will gain the freedom to express their diversity.
Recommended Citation
Robert S. Chang,
Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-structuralism, and Narrative Space, 81 CALIF. L. REV. 1241
(1993).
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/411
Comments
reprinted in 1 ASIAN LAW JOURNAL 1 (1994) Also reprinted in POWER, PRIVILEGE AND LAW: A CIVIL RIGHTS READER (Leslie Bender & Daan Braveman eds., West Publishing, 1994), reprinted in CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CUTTING EDGE (Richard Delgado ed., Temple University Press, 1995), reprinted in READINGS ON RACE AND LAW (Alex Johnson ed., West Publishing, forthcoming 1999)