Thinking Orientals Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America

Name: Thinking Orientals Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
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ISBN: 9780195116601

ISBN-10: 0195116607

ISBN-13: 9780195116601

Edition: 2001

Authors: Henry Yu

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Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.

Book details

List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/15/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.144

Henry Yu is a professor in the Department of History and the principal of St. John's College at the University of British Columbia.



First Movement--Coming to the West: Constructing the Oriental Problem



Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926



Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem



Orientalism and the Mapping of Race



The Survey's End


Second Movement--Coming to Chicago: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem



Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply



Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man



Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective


Retracings--Coming to America: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object



Performers on Stage



American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity



Epilogue: Legacies and Descendants An Epitaph