America's experts : race and the fictions of sociology /
Tolentino, Cynthia H.
Minneapolis, Minn. ; London : University of Minnesota Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sociological interests, racial reform: Richard Wright's Intellectual of color -- Americanization as black professionalization: Gunnar Myrdal's An American dilemma -- Training for the American century: professional Filipinos in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart -- Not black, not coolies: pathologization, Asian American citizenship, and Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese daughter.
American literature
Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.
Race in literature.
Literature and society
National characteristics, American, in literature.