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Main Title Orientals : Asian Americans in popular culture /
Author Lee, Robert G.,
Publisher Temple University Press,
Year Published 1999
OCLC Number 39215978
ISBN 1566396581; 9781566396585; 9781566397537; 1566397537
Subjects Asian Americans in popular culture--United States ; Racism--United States ; United States--Race relations ; Aziaten ; Assimilatie (sociologie) ; Populaire cultuur ; Rassenvorurteil ; Akkulturation ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Ethnische Identität ; Asiaten ; USA ; Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation
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EJAM APAP E184.O6L48 1998 APAP Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 09/13/2013
Collation xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index.
Contents Notes
Preface: Where are you from? -- Introduction: Yellowface -- The "heathen Chinee" on God's free soil -- The coolie and the making of the white working class -- The third sex -- Inner dikes and barred zones -- The Cold War origins of the model minority -- The model minority as gook -- After LA -- Disobedient citizenship : deconstructing the Oriental. The author examines stereotypes of Asians in the United States including Coolies, the Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Gook.