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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818497403321

Autore

Phu Thy <1975->

Titolo

Picturing model citizens : civility in Asian American visual culture / / Thy Phu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-4399-0722-6

1-280-12814-3

9786613532022

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Disciplina

305.895/073

Soggetti

Asian Americans in popular culture

Images, Photographic - Social aspects - United States

Photography - Social aspects - United States

Courtesy - United States

Citizenship - United States

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Clasped hands and clenched fists -- Spectacles of intimacy and the aesthetics of domestication -- Cultivating citizenship : internment landscapes and still lifes -- A manner of apology : transpacifism and the scars of reparation -- Racial hygiene : SARS, surgical masks, and the civility of surveillance -- The inhospitable politics of repatriation.

Sommario/riassunto

At the heart of the model minority myth-often associated with Asian Americans-is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship.Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Ja