Thinking Orientals
Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
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- Kiadás sorszáma New ed
- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2002. március 28.
- ISBN 9780195151275
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem288 oldal
- Méret 225x163x17 mm
- Súly 408 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 10 halftones, 2 maps 0
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Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II. The book also analyses the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
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What is the difference between an "Oriental" and an "Asian American"? In this fascinating study, Henry Yu explains how Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans came to be lumped together as "Orientals" in the United States, and how this eventually led to their understanding of themselves as Asian Americans. Yu tells the story of how white American intellectuals from the University of Chicago sought out Americans of Chinese and Japanese ancestry. Detailing how they together constructed theories about an exotic Orient completely opposite from American culture, Yu describes the history of American Orientalism and shows how it helped to produce modern notions of race and culture. The ideas that arose from studying Orientals, connected by social scientists with theories about African Americans and white European immigrants, inform the way we understand the race in America today.
Yu uses poignant vignettes to illustrate the difficult and often ironic positions of intellectuals of colour, providing a glimpse into what W.E.B. Dubois called the "double consciousness" of racial minorities in the United States. He goes on to discuss how cultural theory has become confused with anti-racism, and how a colourblind denial of race has failed to free us from racism. His book is one of the first to describe how crucial Asian Americans have been in the shaping of theories of race and culture, helping to move us away from the black/white paradigm of race relations. Yu explains why an Asian American can be a fourth-generation citizen of the United States and yet still be considered a foreigner. He also details how theories about Asians as a "model minority" were created in the aftermath of Japanese American internment, and how Asian Americans have been pitted politically against African Americans and Hispanic Americans.
A tour de force. Henry Yu takes us on a dazzling journey through twentieth-century social science and identity politics. There is something new and provocative on every page, from Yu's deep analysis of the construction of the "oriental" in Chicago School sociology to his finely-drawn biographical vignettes of famous intellectuals and little known immigrants. Thinking Orientals will find a place on a short shelf of absolutely indispensable books on the changing concept of race in American history.
Tartalomjegyzék:
First Movement--Coming to the West: Constructing the Oriental Problem
Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926
Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem
Orientalism and the Mapping of Race
The Survey's End
Second Movement--Coming to Chicago: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem
Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply
Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man
Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective
Retracings--Coming to America: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object
Performers on Stage
American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity
Epilogue: Legacies and Descendants
An Epitaph
