UC Irvine

This article calls on ethnic studies scholars to question how the public university remains intact as an unproblematized social model of advancement by interrogating the necropolitics of the public university—the collateral damage that the academic industrial complex incurs in securing advantages for some. Bui reads Asian American studies and its scholars against neoliberal claims by the University of California to provide a “better life,” in so doing challenging the precarious privilege of Asian Americans and constructions of the “model minority.”