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Redefining race : Asian American panethnicity and shifting ethnic boundaries / Dina G. Okamoto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okamoto, Dina G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans.
- Ethnicity--United States.
- Ethnicity.
- United States.
- Group identity--United States.
- Group identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 245 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that names Asian Americans as the "highest-income, best-educated, and fastest-growing racial group in the United States." Despite this optimistic conclusion, over thirty Asian American advocacy groups challenged the findings, noting that the term "Asian American" is complicated. It includes a wide range of ethnicities, national origins, and languages, and encompasses groups that differ greatly in their economic and social status. Redefining Race is a groundbreaking analysis of the processes through which group boundaries are drawn and contested. In mapping the genesis of a panethnic Asian American identity, Okamoto illustrates the ways in which concepts of race continue to shape how ethnic and immigrant groups view themselves and organize for representation in the public arena. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Ethnic boundary change and panethnicity
- The durability of ethnic boundaries in the pre-1968 era
- The emergence of organizational panethnicity
- The ethnic-panethnic dynamics of collective action
- Ethnic organizations and the flexibility of group boundaries
- Panethnicity and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781610448451
- 1610448456
- Publisher Number:
- 99967464252
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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