The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / / Ellen D. Wu |
Autore | Wu Ellen D. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.895073 |
Collana | Politics and Society in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans - Public opinion
Asian Americans - Ethnic identity Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation Asian Americans - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
African American freedom
American public Asian American identity Asians Asiatic China Chinatown Chinese American citizenship Chinese Americans Cold War civil rights Hawaiʻi statehood Hawaiʻi Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Americans Korean War Nikkei citizenship Nikkei Nisei soldier Nisei women Nisei zoot-suiters Oriental men Overseas Chinese Pacific War Pacific melting pot Red Scare World War II anti-Communism citizenship imperatives educational campaigns ethnic Asian populations ethnic Chinese ethnic communities ethnic community exclusion family gender immigrant communities indigenous population juvenile delinquency model minorities model minority national belonging political moderation post-Exclusion era racial harmony racial landscape racial liberal sentiment racial liberalism racial order racial paradise racial reform self-reliance sexuality social science statehood traditional family values war mobilization warrior persona wartime culture wartime masculinity white settler colonists world leadership yogore youth criminality |
ISBN |
0-691-16802-4
1-4008-4887-3 |
Classificazione | HIS036060SOC031000POL004000SOC043000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Imperatives of Asian American Citizenship -- Part I. War and the Assimilating Other -- Chapter 1. Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind -- Chapter 2. How American Are We? -- Chapter 3. Nisei in Uniform -- Chapter 4. America's Chinese -- Part II. Definitively Not-Black -- Chapter 5. Success Story, Japanese American Style -- Chapter 6. Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson -- Chapter 7. The Melting Pot of the Pacific -- Epilogue. Model Minority/Asian American -- Notes -- Archival, Primary, and Unpublished Sources -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790609203321 |
Wu Ellen D.
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] | ||
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The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / / Ellen D. Wu |
Autore | Wu Ellen D. |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.895073 |
Collana | Politics and Society in Modern America |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans - Public opinion
Asian Americans - Ethnic identity Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation Asian Americans - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
African American freedom
American public Asian American identity Asians Asiatic China Chinatown Chinese American citizenship Chinese Americans Cold War civil rights Hawaiʻi statehood Hawaiʻi Japanese American Citizens League Japanese Americans Korean War Nikkei citizenship Nikkei Nisei soldier Nisei women Nisei zoot-suiters Oriental men Overseas Chinese Pacific War Pacific melting pot Red Scare World War II anti-Communism citizenship imperatives educational campaigns ethnic Asian populations ethnic Chinese ethnic communities ethnic community exclusion family gender immigrant communities indigenous population juvenile delinquency model minorities model minority national belonging political moderation post-Exclusion era racial harmony racial landscape racial liberal sentiment racial liberalism racial order racial paradise racial reform self-reliance sexuality social science statehood traditional family values war mobilization warrior persona wartime culture wartime masculinity white settler colonists world leadership yogore youth criminality |
ISBN |
0-691-16802-4
1-4008-4887-3 |
Classificazione | HIS036060SOC031000POL004000SOC043000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Imperatives of Asian American Citizenship -- Part I. War and the Assimilating Other -- Chapter 1. Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind -- Chapter 2. How American Are We? -- Chapter 3. Nisei in Uniform -- Chapter 4. America's Chinese -- Part II. Definitively Not-Black -- Chapter 5. Success Story, Japanese American Style -- Chapter 6. Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson -- Chapter 7. The Melting Pot of the Pacific -- Epilogue. Model Minority/Asian American -- Notes -- Archival, Primary, and Unpublished Sources -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823450303321 |
Wu Ellen D.
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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