Emerging Monoculture Assimilation and the Model Minority

Name: Emerging Monoculture Assimilation and the Model Minority
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ISBN: 9780275973124

ISBN-10: 0275973123

ISBN-13: 9780275973124

Edition: 2003

Authors: Eric Kramer

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Kramer brings together experts from a variety of "minority" backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasive ideology today, globalism. The basic premise is that a "developed" country is different from a "developed" community. They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant. The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as "What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'?" and "What does it mean to be a 'model minority' in a global economy?" The process of becoming a "mainstream person" involves being first marginalized with the implication that something is inadequate about one's self. The…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 2/28/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Introduction: Assimilation and the Model Minority Ideology



The Hidden Justification for Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and the Prospects for Democracy



Adopting the Caucasian "Look": Reorganizing the Minority Face



The Violence of Assimilation and Psychological Well-Being



The Ainu: A Discourse on Being Japanese



Headache and Heartbreak: The Elusiveness of "Model Minority" Status Attainment for African Americans



A Communication Dilemma Between the Non-Disabled and People with Disabilities in Japan



Successful Indians: Benevolent Assimilation and Indian Identity



Abandoned People in Japan: The First Generation of Koreans in Japan



Demythologizing the "Model Minority"



Indians and the Model Minority Narrative: A Neocolonial System



Kramer Cosmopoly: Occidentalism and the New World Order



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Name Index


Subject Index