Saving Face : The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth /

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The Asian immigrant family myth celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the "normal (white) American family" yet also demonizes them for reinforcing oppressive and backwards cultural values. Saving Face cuts through these myths, offering a more nuan...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Chung, Angie Y., 1973- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Model minority stereotype.
Americanization.
Immigrant families.
Asians.
Asian Americans.
Asian American families.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Asiatiques > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine asiatique.
Familles americaines d'origine asiatique.
Stereotype de la minorite modele > États-Unis.
Americanisation.
Familles immigrantes > États-Unis.
Asian Americans
Asians > United States.
Model minority stereotype > United States.
Immigrant families > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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Résumé:The Asian immigrant family myth celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the "normal (white) American family" yet also demonizes them for reinforcing oppressive and backwards cultural values. Saving Face cuts through these myths, offering a more nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world. Angie Y. Chung examines how the grown children of Korean and Chinese immigrants emotionally negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing through new modes of love, communication, and ca.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813569833

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