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Saving Face : The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth
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Year: 2016 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,

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Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the "normal (white) American family" based on a hard-working male breadwinner and a devoted wife and mother who raises obedient children. The other demonizes Asian families around these very same cultural values by highlighting the dangers of excessive parenting, oppressive hierarchies, and emotionless pragmatism in Asian cultures. Saving Face cuts through these myths, offering a more nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world as recalled by the people who lived them first-hand: the grown children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews, sociologist Angie Y. Chung examines how these second-generation children negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing. Although they know little about their parents' lives, she reveals how Korean and Chinese Americans assemble fragments of their childhood memories, kinship narratives, and racial myths to make sense of their family experiences. However, Chung also finds that these adaptive strategies come at a considerable social and psychological cost and do less to reconcile the social stresses that minority immigrant families endure today. Saving Face not only gives readers a new appreciation for the often painful generation gap between immigrants and their children, it also reveals the love, empathy, and communication strategies families use to help bridge those rifts.


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The Model Minority Stereotype : Demystifying Asian American Success
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ISBN: 1648024793 9781648024795 9781648024788 Year: 2021 Publisher: Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated,

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"Researchers, higher education administrators, and high school and university students desire a sourcebook like The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success. This second edition of has updated its contents that will assist readers in locating research and literature on the model minority stereotype. This sourcebook is composed of an annotated bibliography on the stereotype that Asian Americans are successful. The most powerful resource for scholars to use and teachers to read must not simply duplicate what others (and previous literature) have written about but must challenge it. Each chapter in The Model Minority Stereotype is thematic and challenges the model minority stereotype. Consisting of an eleventh and updated chapter, this book is the most comprehensive book written on the model minority myth to date"--


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Asian/Americans, education, and crime : the model minority as victim and perpetrator
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ISBN: 1498526454 9781498526456 9781498526449 1498526446 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books,

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Asianfail : narratives of disenchantment and the model minority
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ISBN: 0252099389 9780252099380 0252040880 9780252040887 0252082354 9780252082351 Year: 2017 Publisher: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press,

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Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed. Some are haunted by childhood memories of war, trauma, and refugee camps. Rejecting an obsession with professional status and money, they seek fulfillment by prioritising relationships, personal growth, and cultural success. As Ty shows, these storytellers have done more than reject a narrowly defined road to happiness. They have rejected neoliberal capitalism itself. In so doing, they demand that the rest of us reconsider our outmoded ideas about the so-called model minority.


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Hyper education : why good schools, good grades, and good behavior are not enough
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ISBN: 1479882259 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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An up-close look at the education arms race of after-school learning, academic competitions, and the perceived failure of even our best schools to educate childrenBeyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned. It is a world where immigrant families vie with other Americans to be at the head of the class, putting in hours of studying and testing in order to gain a foothold in the supposed meritocracy of American public education. A world where enrichment centers, like Kumon, have seen 194 percent growth since 2002 and target children as young as three. Even families and teachers who avoid after-school academics are getting swept up. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews with teachers, tutors, principals, children, and parents, Dhingra delves into the why people participate in this phenomenon and examines how schools, families, and communities play their part. Moving past "Tiger Mom" stereotypes, he addresses why Asian American and white families practice what he calls "hyper education" and whether or not it makes sense. By taking a behind-the-scenes look at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, other national competitions, and learning centers, Dhingra shows why good schools, good grades, and good behavior are seen as not enough for high-achieving students and their parents and why the education arms race is likely to continue to expand.


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Menace to empire : anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state
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ISBN: 9780520387768 Year: 2022 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes the antiradical and colonial origins of anti-Asian racism. Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history. This profoundly ambitious history of race and empire traces both the colonial violence and the anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence anticolonial subjects, from the Philippines and Hawaiʻi to California and beyond.   Jung examines how various revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific confronted the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and brutally suppressed those movements, exaggerating fears of pan-Asian solidarities and sowing anti-Asian racism. Radicalized by their opposition to the US empire and racialized as threats to US security, peoples in and from Asia pursued a revolutionary politics that engendered and haunted the national security state--the heart and soul of the US empire ever since.


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Writing the ghetto : class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave
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ISBN: 9780813551753 9780813548012 0813548012 9786613369932 0813549841 1283369931 9780813549842 9781283369930 6613369934 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,

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In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community, which is often described as residing in positive-sounding ""ethnic enclaves."" Yoonmee Chang's Writing the Ghetto helps clarify the hidden or unspoken class inequalities faced by Asian Americans, while insightfully analyzing the effect such notions have had on their literary voices.


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Korean American Families in Immigrant America : How Teens and Parents Navigate Race
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ISBN: 1479834858 1479804207 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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This text about Korean American immigrant families is the result of a collaboration between an anthropologist and a psychologist. Combining quantitative surveys with family ethnography, the work explores the central question, 'How do Korean American teens and parents navigate immigrant America?' Both survey and ethnographic data reveals that acculturation differences between parents and teens - long assumed in the psychological literature to account for distress - did not necessarily make for family hardship.


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Challenging Academia: A Critical Space for Controversial Social Issues
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.


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Whiter : Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism
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ISBN: 1479832472 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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Part 1. Colorism defined -- Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American -- Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident) -- Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American -- You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas, Khmer American -- You have such a nice tan! / Ethel Nicdao, Filipina American -- Brown arms / Tanzila Ahmed, Bangladeshi American -- Hopes for my daughter / Bhoomi K. Thakore, Indian American -- Part 2. Privilege -- Blessed with beautiful skin / Rhea Manglani, Indian American -- Shai hei / Rosalie Chan, Chinese/Filipina American -- Whiteness is slippery / Julia Mizutani, Multiracial Japanese/White American -- Regular inmates / Sonal Nalkur, Indo-Canadian (currently resides in the U.S.) -- Magnetic repulsion / Brittany Ota-Malloy, Multiracial Japanese/Black American -- Part 3. Aspirational whiteness -- Digital whiteness / Noor Hasan, Pakistani American -- Mrs. santos' whitening cream / Agatha Roa, Pacific Islander American -- Shade of brown / Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina America -- Part 4. Anti-blackness -- Creation stories / Sairah Husain, Pakistani American -- What it means to be brown / Wendy Thompson Taiwo, multiracial Chinese/Black American -- The perpetual outsider / Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cham American -- Part 5. Belonging and identity -- What are you? / Anne Mai Yee Jansen, Multiracial Chinese/White American -- Born Filipina, somewhere in between / Kim D. Chanbonpin, Filipina American -- Invisible to my own people / Kamna Shastri, Indian American -- Nobody deserves to feel like a foreigner in their own culture / Erika Lee, Taiwanese/Chinese American -- Tired / Cindy Luu, Vietnamese American -- Part 6. Skin redefined -- The very best of you / Joanne L. Rondilla, Filipina American -- Reprogramming / Daniela Pila, Filipina American -- Cartographies of myself / Lillian Lu, Chinese American -- The sun is calling my name / Rowena Mangohig, Filipina American -- Abominable honhyeol / Julia R. DeCook, Multiracial Korean/White American -- Dear future child / Kathy Tran-Peters, Vietnamese American -- Teeth / Betty Ming Liu, Chinese American.

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