The Color of Success

Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20028076
AutoresEllen D Wu (autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas354
Fecha de publicación2013-11-24
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaThe color of success (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691157825.001.0001
OpenAlexW4230804382
Open LibraryOL26888750M
ISBN9780691157825
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas42

This book 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—in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As the book shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, the book provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. It highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. It also demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaiʻi statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, the book reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood

Asian americans · Democracy · Ethnic group · Immigration · Model minority · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · 1945-1989 · 20th century · 305.895/073 · Asian American Studies · Civil rights · Cs.soc_sci.poli_sci.gen_polit_sc · Cultural assimilation · Discrimination & Race Relations · E184.a75 w8 2013 · Ethnic identity · ethnic relations · Ethnic Studies · His036060 soc031000 pol004000 soc043000 · History · Political Freedom & Security · politics and government · Public opinion · race relations · Social Science · Social sciences -> history -> american history · Social sciences -> social sciences -> ethnic studies · Social sciences -> sociology -> race/class/gender · united states