The myth of the model minority
Subtitle: Asian Americans facing racism
By: Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin
Contributors: Feagin, Joe R., author
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781612055701; 9781612054780
Subjects: Social conditions; Asian Americans; Race discrimination; Racism
Description: The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America's male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the lives of Asian Americans. The text retains all the features of the renowned first edition, which offered the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the "double consciousness" of many Asian Americans-experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America's highly achieving "model minority."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments; title: The reality of Asian American oppression; title: Everyday racism : anti-Asian discrimination in public places; title: Everyday racism : anti-Asian discrimination in schools and workplaces; title: The many costs of anti-Asian discrimination; title: Struggle and conformity : the white racial frame; title: Acts of resistance; title: Reprise and conclusions; title: Notes; title: Index; title: About the author.