Picturing model citizens : civility in Asian American visual culture / Thy Phu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phu, Thy, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans in popular culture.

Images, Photographic--Social aspects--United States.

Images, Photographic.

Photography--Social aspects--United States.

Photography.

Courtesy--United States.

Courtesy.

Citizenship--United States.

Citizenship.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the heart of the model minority myth-often associated with Asian Americans-is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship.Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Ja

Contents:

Clasped hands and clenched fists

Spectacles of intimacy and the aesthetics of domestication

Cultivating citizenship : internment landscapes and still lifes

A manner of apology : transpacifism and the scars of reparation

Racial hygiene : SARS, surgical masks, and the civility of surveillance

The inhospitable politics of repatriation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613532022

9781439907221

1439907226

9781280128141

1280128143

OCLC:

785939437

Publisher Number:

heb40335 hdl