Economic citizens : a narrative of Asian American visibility /

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"In the past fifty years, according to Christine So, the narratives of many popular Asian American books have been dominated by economic questions - what money can buy, how money is lost, how money is circulated, and what labor or objects are worth. Focusing on books that have achieved mainstre...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: So, Christine, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007, ©2008.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Economic conditions.
Exchange > United States.
Social exchange.
Globalization > Social aspects > United States.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans > Historiography.
Asian Americans in literature.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Conditions économiques.
Échange (Économie politique) > États-Unis.
Échange social.
Mondialisation > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Identité ethnique.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Historiographie.
Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
Ethnic relations.
Exchange.
Globalization > Social aspects.
United States > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The promise of exchange : production, circulation, and consumption within Chinatown ethnographies
  • The universality of exchange : Japanese American travel narratives and the emergence of the global citizen
  • The embodiment of exchange : Asian mail-order brides, the threat of global capitalism, and the rescue of the U.S. nation-state
  • The logic of exchange : ordering the chaos of twentieth-century Chinese women's history.

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