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Consuming citizenship : children of Asian immigrant entrepreneurs / Lisa Sun-Hee Park.
LIBRA E184.K6 P365 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Park, Lisa Sun-Hee.
- Series:
- Asian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Korean Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Korean Americans.
- Chinese Americans--Cultural assimilation.
- Chinese Americans.
- Children of immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Children of immigrants.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Korean Americans--Economic conditions.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Family-owned business enterprises.
- Social aspects.
- Asian Americans.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Children of immigrants--United States--Interviews.
- Asian Americans--Interviews.
- Family-owned business enterprises--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Chinese Americans--Economic conditions.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 169 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a central role in projecting the American ideology of meritocracy and equality. The children of these immigrants are seen as evidence of an open society. While it appears that these children have readily adapted to American culture, questions remain as to why second-generation Asian Americans feel compelled to convince others of their legitimacy and the way they go about asserting their citizenship status. Extending our understanding of such children beyond the traditional emphasis on assimilation, the author argues that their consumptive behavior is a significant expression of their paradoxical position as citizens who straddle the boundaries of social inclusion and exclusion.
- Contents:
- 1 Consumptive Citizenship 1
- 2 Minding the Family Store 22
- 3 Searching for a "Normal" Family 42
- 4 The Business in Children's Lives 64
- 5 The American Narrative of Asian Immigration 85
- 6 Consumption Fantasies of Upward Mobility 111
- 7 Consumption, Democracy, and the Good Immigrant 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-162) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804752478
- 0804752486
- OCLC:
- 60454979
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