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RECORD NUMBER: 1 OF 1| Main Title | Orientals : Asian Americans in popular culture / | |||||||||||
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| 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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| Collation | xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
| Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index. |
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| 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. |