Picturing model citizens
Subtitle: civility in Asian American visual culture
By: Thy Phu
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781439907207; 9781439907214; 9781439907221
Subjects: Citizenship; Social aspects; Photography; Asian Americans in popular culture; United States; Courtesy; Emigration and immigration; Photographic Images
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Clasped hands and clenched fists; title: Spectacles of intimacy and the aesthetics of domestication; title: Cultivating citizenship : internment landscapes and still lifes; title: A manner of apology : transpacifism and the scars of reparation; title: Racial hygiene : SARS, surgical masks, and the civility of surveillance; title: The inhospitable politics of repatriation.