Asian/American Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier

Name: Asian/American Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier
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ISBN: 9780804734455

ISBN-10: 0804734453

ISBN-13: 9780804734455

Edition: 1999

Authors: David Palumbo-Liu

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Are Asians the first racial minority to be truly integrated as Americans? If so, what would this tell us about America? Complicating the usual notion of identity politics and drawing on a wide range of writings, the author studies these questions.

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction



Modernity, Asia, America



Pacific America: Projection, Introjection, and the Beginnings of Modern Asian America



Rescripting the Imaginary



Bodies and Souls



Written on the Face: Race, Nation, Migrancy, and Sex



Transacting Culture: Bodies at the Seam of the Social



Modeling the Nation



Citizens and Subnations



Disintegrations and Reconsolidations



Placing Asian America



War, the Homeland, and the Traces of Memory



Demarcations and Fissures: Reconstructing Space



Mind Readings



Double Trouble: The Pathology of Ethnicity Meets White Schizophrenia



Asia Pacific: A Transnational Imaginary


Conclusion



Model Minority Discourse and the Course of Healing


Notes


Works Cited


Index