Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation : On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans /

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"In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eng, David L., 1967- (Author), Han, Shinhee, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race > Psychological aspects.
Model minority stereotype.
Asians.
Asian diaspora.
Asian Americans > Race identity.
Asian American youth.
Asian American gays.
Asiatiques > États-Unis.
Asiatiques > Pays etrangers.
Homosexuels americains d'origine asiatique.
Race > Aspect psychologique.
Stereotype de la minorite modele > États-Unis.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Identite ethnique.
Jeunesse americaine d'origine asiatique.
Asians > United States.
Model minority stereotype > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the history of the (racial) subject and the subject of (racial) history
  • Racial melancholia : model minorities, depression, and suicide
  • Desegregating love : transnational adoption, racial reparation, and racial transitional objects
  • Racial dissociation : parachute children and psychic nowhere
  • (Gay) panic attack : coming out in a colorblind age
  • Epilogue.

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