The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu.
"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--Peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--i...
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Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Imperatives of Asian American citizenship
- Part I. War and the assimilating other
- Leave your zoot suits behind
- How American are we?
- Nisei in uniform
- America's Chinese
- Part II. Definitively not-Black
- Success story, Japanese American Style
- Chinatown offers us a lesson
- The melting pot of the Pacific
- Epilogue. Model minority/Asian American.