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Model-minority imperialism / Victor Bascara.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bascara, Victor, 1970-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Asian Americans--Race identity.
Asian Americans.
Asian Americans--Politics and government.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Imperialism.
Postcolonialism.
Relations.
United States--Territorial expansion.
United States.
Territorial expansion.
United States--Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Nationalism--United States.
Nationalism.
United States--Relations--Asia.
Asia--Relations--United States.
Asia.
Physical Description:
xxxvi, 192 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]
Contents:
Introduction : we are here because you were there
Unburdening empire : the cultural politics of Asian American difference
An ever-emergent empire : the discourse of American exceptionalism
"The American earth was like a huge heart" : old dreams and the new imperialism
Uplifting race, reconstructing empire
"Everybody wants to be Farrah" : absurd histories and historical absurdities
Epilogue : pay any price, bear any burden.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-177) and index.
ISBN:
0816645116
0816645124
OCLC:
65766642
Publisher Number:
9780816645114
9780816645121

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