Thinking Orientals

In American social and political thought, Asians have been portrayed as either a racial "problem" or as a "solution." Historian Henry Yu persuasively argues that the two representations are intimately linked through their shared evocation of the "Oriental" as a symbol of exotic difference. Thinking Orientals, in a provocative challenge to the dominant black/white understanding of race, reveals "how crucial thinking about Orientals has been to the formulations of the most prominent theorists of race and culture in modern American intellectual life" (vi)

Art history · Exoticism · Geography · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Travel Writing and Literature

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