Ellen D Wu

Biographic Data

ID4515784
NAMEEllen D Wu
GIVEN NAMESEllen D
FAMILY NAMEWu
SIGNATUREWU E D
AFFILIATIONSIndiana University Bloomington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • It's Time to Center War in U.S. Immigration History

    Open AccessEllen D WuARTICLEModern American History2019

    War is central to U.S. immigration history. Yet too often that fact has been obscured by folktales that rhapsodize about the feel-good Ellis Island story: lured by the American Dream, strangers come to a promised land, put down roots, and triumph over adversity through industry, resolve, and pluck.

  • Trans-Pacific Destiny

    Ellen D WuARTICLECurrent History2015

    A new book by historian Gordon H. Chang shows that China has long obsessed Americans, spurring on their expansionary and missionary impulses

  • Excerpt from The Color of Success

    Open AccessEllen D WuARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2015Cited by: 1

    Excerpted from Ellen D. Wu, The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013)

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Madeline Y Hsu, Ellen D WuARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2015Cited by: 2

    Research Article| July 01 2015 "Smoke and Mirrors": Conditional Inclusion, Model Minorities, and the Pre-1965 Dismantling of Asian Exclusion Madeline Y. Hsu; Madeline Y. Hsu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ellen D. Wu Ellen D. Wu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2015) 34 (4): 43–65. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.34.4.0043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…

  • The Color of Success

    Ellen D WuBOOKThe Color of Success2014

  • Success Story, Japanese American Style

    Ellen D WuCHAPTERThe color of success2013

    This chapter examines how, in seeking to produce new envisagements about Japanese Americans, Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) spoke to mid-twentieth-century liberals' confidence in the ability of educational campaigns and social science to transform existing ideas about race and alter the country's racial order. Constituents of the era's race relations complex identified Nikkei citizenship as an American dilemma to be repaired in order to…

  • The Color of Success

    Open AccessEllen D WuBOOKThe color of success2013

    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 Amer…

  • After Camp

    Ellen D WuARTICLEJournal of American History2012

  • America's Chinese”

    Ellen D WuARTICLEPacific Historical Review2008Cited by: 5References: 2

    With the onset of the Cold War, the federal government became concerned with the impact that the status and treatment of Chinese Americans as a racial minority in American society had on perceptions of the United States among populations in the Asian Pacific. As a response, the State Department's cultural diplomacy campaigns targeting the Pacific Rim used Chinese Americans, including Betty Lee Sung (writer for the Voice of America) and Jade Snow …