03045nam 2200685Ia 450 991046140150332120200520144314.01-4399-0722-61-280-12814-39786613532022(CKB)2670000000176489(EBL)887889(OCoLC)785939437(SSID)ssj0000602995(PQKBManifestationID)11349241(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000602995(PQKBWorkID)10572004(PQKB)11171163(MiAaPQ)EBC887889(MdBmJHUP)muse16257(Au-PeEL)EBL887889(CaPaEBR)ebr10553371(CaONFJC)MIL353202(EXLCZ)99267000000017648920111024d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPicturing model citizens[electronic resource] civility in Asian American visual culture /Thy PhuPhiladelphia Temple University Press20121 online resource (219 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4399-0720-X 1-4399-0721-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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, JaAsian Americans in popular cultureImages, PhotographicSocial aspectsUnited StatesPhotographySocial aspectsUnited StatesCourtesyUnited StatesCitizenshipUnited StatesUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsElectronic books.Asian Americans in popular culture.Images, PhotographicSocial aspectsPhotographySocial aspectsCourtesyCitizenship305.895/073Phu Thy1975-932932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461401503321Picturing model citizens2099790UNINA