The Resource The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, Ellen D. Wu, (electronic resource)
The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, Ellen D. Wu, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- "The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 357 p.
- Note
-
- Published by Princeton University Press
- This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std and Italia Std
- Printed on acid-free paper
- Printed in the United States of America
- Contents
-
- War and the Assimilating Other -- Definitively Not-Black
- Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind -- How American Are We? -- Nisei in Uniform -- America's Chinese -- Success Story, Japanese American Style -- Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson -- The Melting Pot of the Pacific
- Isbn
- 9780691168029
- Label
- The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
- Title
- The Color of Success
- Title remainder
- Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
- Statement of responsibility
- Ellen D. Wu
- Subject
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- Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Asian Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Asian Americans -- Public opinion
- Race
- United States -- Ethnic relations | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- American 4 : -- 1900-present
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- MZA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wu, Ellen D
- Credits note
- Cover photograph: Team USA, also known as the San Francisco Chinese Basketball Team, 1956. Courtesy of the San Francisco Chinese Basketball Team
- Dewey number
- 305.895/073
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- photographs
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E184.A75
- LC item number
- W8 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- theses
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- William Chafe
- Gary Gerstle
- Linda Gordon
- Julian Zelizer
- American Council of Learned Societies
- Series statement
- Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/relation/serieseditor
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- wOaLWeSMqeE
- _Mt5iZ5822U
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Race
- Asian Americans
- Asian Americans
- Asian Americans
- Asian Americans
- United States
- United States
- United States
- American 4 :
- Label
- The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, Ellen D. Wu, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Published by Princeton University Press
- This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std and Italia Std
- Printed on acid-free paper
- Printed in the United States of America
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes index
- Color
- mixed
- Contents
-
- War and the Assimilating Other -- Definitively Not-Black
- Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind -- How American Are We? -- Nisei in Uniform -- America's Chinese -- Success Story, Japanese American Style -- Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson -- The Melting Pot of the Pacific
- Control code
- on1135087707
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xvii, 357 p.
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780691168029
- Lccn
- 2013019921
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other physical details
- Grayscale Illustration
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic text and image data.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1135087707
- Label
- The Color of Success : Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, Ellen D. Wu, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- Published by Princeton University Press
- This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std and Italia Std
- Printed on acid-free paper
- Printed in the United States of America
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes index
- Color
- mixed
- Contents
-
- War and the Assimilating Other -- Definitively Not-Black
- Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind -- How American Are We? -- Nisei in Uniform -- America's Chinese -- Success Story, Japanese American Style -- Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson -- The Melting Pot of the Pacific
- Control code
- on1135087707
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- xvii, 357 p.
- File format
- multiple file formats
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9780691168029
- Lccn
- 2013019921
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Other physical details
- Grayscale Illustration
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic text and image data.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1135087707
Subject
- Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
- Asian Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Asian Americans -- Public opinion
- Race
- United States -- Ethnic relations | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- American 4 : -- 1900-present
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