Minority invisibility : an Asian American experience / Wei Sun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sun, Wei, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities in communication--United States.

Minorities in communication.

Asian American professional employees--Interviews.

Asian American professional employees.

Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Asian Americans.

Ethnic relations.

Race awareness--United States.

Race awareness.

Cultural awareness.

United States.

Cultural awareness--United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

viii, 87 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2007]

Summary:

Minority invisibility has gone unnoticed in the communication discipline. It denies the existence of racial problems by consciously or unconsciously downplaying, ignoring, or oversimplifying the issues. This is evidenced from the claims of color-blindness and reverse discrimination, the belief in model minorities, and exaggerated, negative, or purposeful racial displays that permeate American culture.

Using in-depth interviews with Asian-American professionals from various metropolitan areas, this study investigates these professionals' perceptions on minority invisibility and model minority status. It explores Asian Americans' ethnic consciousness on four levels, discussing how the group perceives their individual invisibility, their group members' invisibility, the invisibility of other American co-cultural groups, and finally their expectations in changing minority invisibility in the United States. The work considers diverse viewpoints on minority invisibility, model minority, satisfaction and dissatisfaction with mainstream American culture, and co-cultural ethnic relations. This study is useful to graduate and undergraduate students and researchers with an interest in race relations, Asian-American studies, co-cultural theory, and intercultural communication studies.

Contents:

Information Background 1

Definition of "Minority Invisibility" 3

Problem Statement 8

Significance of the Study 8

2 Literature Review 10

Historical Review of America Racial Formation 10

Forms of Minority Invisibility 13

Research on Asian American Study and Model Minority 20

Theories Dealing with Invisibility 23

3 Research Procedures 25

Qualitative Research Methods 25

Recruitment of Participants 28

Interview Questions 29

Description of Participants 31

4 Data Analysis 33

Individual Racial Consciousness 33

Group Racial Consciousness 43

Other Group Racial Consciousness 56

Praxis 61

Discussion of Research Questions 66

Implications and Future Research Directions 73.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-83) and index.

ISBN:

9780761837800

0761837809

OCLC:

154691573