America's Asia Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945

Name: America's Asia Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
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ISBN: 9780691114187

ISBN-10: 0691114188

ISBN-13: 9780691114187

Edition: 2005

Authors: Colleen Lye

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What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats?America's Asiaexplores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a "model minority" or a "yellow peril"--two aspects of what she calls "Asiatic racial form"-- to emergent responses to globalization beginning in California in the late nineteenth century, when industrialization proceeded in tandem with the nation's neocolonial expansion beyond its continental frontier. From Progressive efforts to regulate corporate monopoly to New Deal contentions with the crisis of…

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List price: $82.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Minority Which Is Not One



A Genealogy of the "Yellow Peril"




Meat versus Rice




The End of Asian Exclusion?




A New Deal for Asians




One World



Notes


Works Cited


Index