Thai American Middle-Classness
Forging Alliances with Whites and Cultivating Patronage from Thailand's Elite
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiemin Bao (0000-0002-6082-2677, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-190 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.0.0041 |
| OpenAlex | W2092142693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay explores how Thai transmigrants practice middle-classness by forging alliances with middle-class Whites and cultivating patronage from elites in Thailand. It suggests that simultaneously engaging with local and transnational networks and two sets of cultural codes have become defining characteristics of Thai American middle-class practices. Such practices challenge equating social categories with social groups, deconstruct the false "two Buddhisms" dichotomy, and show that Thai Americans experience greater structural limitations in the United States than in Thailand, as the effects of racialized identity politics and the asymmetrical positions which Thailand and the United States occupy in the global power structure
Aesthetics · Elite · Equating · Identity (music · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |