The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority /

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"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the 'yellow peril' to 'model minorities'--Peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--i...

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Main Author: Wu, Ellen D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Politics and government.
Ethnic relations.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Asian Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Asian Americans.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Opinion publique.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Identite ethnique.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Acculturation.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Asian Americans > Public opinion.
Asian Americans > History > 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1989.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Imperatives of Asian American citizenship
  • Part I. War and the assimilating other. Leave your zoot suits behind
  • How American are we?
  • Nisei in uniform
  • America's Chinese
  • Part II. Definitively not-Black. Success story, Japanese American Style
  • Chinatown offers us a lesson
  • The melting pot of the Pacific
  • Epilogue. Model minority/Asian American
  • Archival, primary, and unpublished sources.

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