Feeling Asian American

Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Wen Liu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08790-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Wen Liu is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Acknowledgments

Introduction Feeling Asian American

Psychology and Racial Flexibility
Black Lives Matter and Asian American Political Fracture
Racial Loss, Diasporic Attachments, and Anti-Imperialism

Epilogue Sideways to Asian America

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	NWSA / UIP First Book Prize
Zusatzinfo	2 color photographs, 1 table
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08790-9 / 0252087909
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08790-5 / 9780252087905
Zustand	Neuware