The myth of the model minority : Asian Americans facing racism / Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chou, Rosalind, author.

Feagin, Joe R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Social conditions.

Asian Americans.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

United States.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 259 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second Edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

Features of the Second Edition Adds significant new interview data that deepens the book's intersectional analysis, showing that Asian women feel sexually exoticized and Asian men feel emasculated in America's male hierarchy, Includes many new examples of recent anti-Asian incidents in the United States such as the viral YouTube video "Asians in the Library," the significance of the emergence of NBA player Jeremy Lin, and the confession of CBS news anchor Julie Chen that she had plastic surgery to change her "Asian facial features" for her media career, Covers the 2013 large-scale survey by the Pew Research Center and updated mental health statistics, among other new studies, Fully updated new edition reveals the "double consciousness" experienced by Asian Americans Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgments

The reality of Asian American oppression

Everyday racism : anti-Asian discrimination in public places

Everyday racism : anti-Asian discrimination in schools and workplaces

The many costs of anti-Asian discrimination

Struggle and conformity : the white racial frame

Acts of resistance

Reprise and conclusions

Notes

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612055701

1612055702

9781612054780

1612054781

OCLC:

878224904