Thinking Orientals [[electronic resource] ] : migration, contact, and exoticism in modern America / / Henry Yu

• Autore: Yu Henry <1967->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford Universtiy Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 262 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.895073
• Soggetto topico: Asian Americans - Social conditions - 20th century; Asian Americans - Ethnic identity - Philosophy; Chicago school of sociology; Sociology - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Formerly CIP.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: FIRST MOVEMENT--COMING TO THE WEST: CONSTRUCTING THE ORIENTAL PROBLEM; 1. Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926; 2. Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem; 3. Orientalism and the Mapping of Race; 4. The Survey's End; SECOND MOVEMENT--COMING TO CHICAGO: ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE ORIENTAL PROBLEM; 5. Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply; 6. Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man; 7. Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective; RETRACINGS--COMING TO AMERICA: THE ORIENTAL AS AN INTELLECTUAL/OBJECT; 8. Performers on Stage; 9. American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity; 10. Epilogue: Legacies and Descendants; An Epitaph
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume explains how Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans came to be lumped together as orientals and how this eventually led to their understanding of themselves as Asian Americans.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thinking Orientals
• ISBN: 1-282-36731-5; 9786610470235; 0-19-802761-3; 1-280-47023-2; 9786612367311; 1-60256-772-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450088403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II