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Autore: | Yu Henry <1967-> |
Titolo: | Thinking Orientals [[electronic resource] ] : migration, contact, and exoticism in modern America / / Henry Yu |
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 |
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