Racial melancholia, racial dissociation : on the social and psychic lives of Asian Americans / David L. Eng, Shinhee Han.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eng, David L., 1967- author.

Han, Shinhee, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian American youth.

Asian Americans--Race identity.

Asian Americans.

Model minority stereotype--United States.

Model minority stereotype.

Race--Psychological aspects.

Race.

Asian American gay people.

Asian diaspora.

Asians--United States.

Asians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Summary:

In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.

Contents:

Racial melancholia : model minorities, depression, and suicide

Desegregating love : transnational adoption, racial reparation, and racial transitional objects

Racial dissociation : parachute children and psychic nowhere

(Gay) panic attack : coming out in a colorblind age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478002680

1478002689

OCLC:

1198930888