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Könyv Thinking Orientals Henry Yu

Thinking Orientals

Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America

Szerző: Henry Yu
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
20 245 Ft
What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American"? In this fascinating study, He...

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Szerző
Henry Yu
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2002
oldal
278
EAN
9780195151275
ISBN
0195151275
Enbook ID
04515567
Kiadó
Oxford University Press Inc
Súly
422
Méretek
230 x 153 x 23

Teljes leírás

What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American"? In this fascinating study, Henry Yu explains how Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans came to be lumped together as "Orientals" in the United States, and how this eventually led to their understanding of themselves as Asian Americans. Yu tells the story of how white American intellectuals from the University of Chicago sought out Americans of Chinese and Japanese ancestry. Detailing how they together constructed theories about an exotic Orient completely opposite from American culture, Yu describes the history of American Orientalism and shows how it helped to produce modern notions of race and culture. The ideas that arose from studying Orientals, connected by social scientists with theories about African Americans and white European immigrants, inform the way we understand the race in America today. Yu uses poignant vignettes to illustrate the difficult and often ironic positions of intellectuals of colour, providing a glimpse into what W.E.B. Dubois called the "double consciousness" of racial minorities in the United States. He goes on to discuss how cultural theory has become confused with anti-racism, and how a colourblind denial of race has failed to free us from racism. His book is one of the first to describe how crucial Asian Americans have been in the shaping of theories of race and culture, helping to move us away from the black/white paradigm of race relations. Yu explains why an Asian American can be a fourth-generation citizen of the United States and yet still be considered a foreigner. He also details how theories about Asians as a "model minority" were created in the aftermath of Japanese American internment, and how Asian Americans have been pitted politically against African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

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