Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America

ISBN-13: 9780195151275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 288 str.

Henry Yu

Opis

Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.

Recenzje

Dominating stereotypes have humble origins as explanations. This is a revealing history on how we in the United States have come to think the way we do on 'Orientals,' assimilation, and whiteness.

O autorze

Henry Yu is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.