Sa-i-gu and the L.A. Riots, Real vs the Fake, Joy Luck Club, All American Girl, rescinded book awards, the debate on theory, Culture Wars, Raunchy Asian Woman (R.A.W.), Bush’s inauguration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Charlie Chan is Dead, the Woman Warrior vs. the Chinaman Pacific – The 1990s were a wild time for Asian American culture and its studies. This panel answers the conference theme’s call to reflect on the field’s disciplinary identities by looking back at the 1990s. Each of our panelists returns to a key literary and cultural studies text from the decade to both engage in retrospection but also remap retro-directions. Some are canonical, others esoteric. Rather than offer a teleology of disciplinary progress, the panel instead looks to the remix as a method for looking backward and forward, mindful of juxtapositions, distortions, and alterations as a way of being “sensitive to histories of inclusion, marginalization, exclusion, and elision.” What lines of inquiry did these writers and scholars carve out in the field? Which of these grooves has the field followed since? What of the paths not taken? What conditions did these writers and scholars imagine would come to fruition? Which conditions or imaginings remain deferred? With Douglas Ishii returning to Susan Koshy, Wendy Lee returning to Laura Kang, Christine Mok returning to Dorinne Kondo, Chris Eng returning to Oscar Campomanes, and Michelle Huang returning to Mae Ngai, the panel considers what we can learn by revisiting the 1990s as we contemplate the role and function of AAAS for the 2020s.