Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression - NWSA / UIP First Book Prize - Wen Liu - Libros - University of Illinois Press - 9780252087905 - 7 de mayo de 2024
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Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression - NWSA / UIP First Book Prize


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Asian Americans have become the love-hate subject of the American psyche: at times celebrated as the model minority, at other times hated as foreigners. Wen Liu examines contemporary Asian American identity formation while placing it within a historical and ongoing narrative of racial injury. The flexible racial status of Asian Americans oscillates between oppression by the white majority and offers to assimilate into its ranks.

Identity emerges from the tensions produced between those two poles. Liu dismisses the idea of Asian Americans as a coherent racial population. Instead, she examines them as a raced, gendered, classed, and sexualized group producing varying physical and imaginary boundaries of nation, geography, and citizenship.

Her analysis reveals repeated norms and acts that capture Asian Americanness as part of a racial imagination that buttresses capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberalism, and the US empire. An innovative challenge to persistent myths, Feeling Asian American ranges from the wartime origins of Asian American psychology to anti-Asian attacks to present Asian Americanness as a complex political assemblage.


200 pages, 2 color photographs, 1 table

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 7 de mayo de 2024
ISBN13 9780252087905
Editores University of Illinois Press
Páginas 200
Dimensiones 229 × 152 × 22 mm   ·   298 g

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