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Higher education hails Asian American students as model minorities who face no educational barriers given their purported cultural values of hard work and political passivity. Described as “over-represented,” Asian Americans have been overlooked in discussions about diversity; however, racial hostility continues to affect Asian American students, and they have actively challenged their invisibility in minority student discussions. This study details the history of Asian American student activism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as students rejected the university’s definition of minority student needs that relied on a model minority myth, measures of under-representation, and a Black-White racial model, concepts that made them an “unseen unheard minority.” This activism led to the creation on campus of one of the largest Asian American Studies programs and Asian American cultural centers in the Midwest. Their histories reveal the limitations of understanding minority student needs solely along measures of under-representation and the realities of race for Asian American college students.
Asian American college students --- Social conditions. --- Asian, American, model minority, diversity, education, model minority myth, under-representation, black-white, Asian American Studies, race, Asian college students, student services, higher education, cultural values, political passivity.
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Asian Americans --- Asian American criminals. --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Model minority stereotype --- Racism --- Crimes against. --- United States --- Race relations.
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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.
Asian Americans in literature. --- Asians in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Asians --- Model minority stereotype. --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity. --- Race identity --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Orientals --- Ethnology
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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.
American literature --- Asian Americans in literature. --- Asian Americans --- Poverty in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- Model minority stereotype. --- Littérature américaine --- Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature --- Américains d'origine asiatique --- Pauvreté dans la littérature --- Groupes ethniques dans la littérature --- Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Stéréotype de la minorité modèle --- Asian American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Ecrivains américains d'origine asiatique --- Histoire et critique --- Vie intellectuelle --- Américains aziatiques dans la littérature --- Asian Americans in literature --- Aziatische Amerikanen in de literatuur --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Asians --- Ethnology
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"Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspondence; US aid organization records; Korean orphanage registers; US and South Korean newspapers and magazines; and photographs, interviews, films, and performances. Integrating history with visual and cultural analysis, Woo chronicles how Americans went from knowing very little about Koreans to making them family, and how Korean children and women who did not choose war found ways to navigate its aftermath in South Korea, the United States, and spaces in between." --
War brides --- Orphans --- Koreans --- Korean War, 1950-1953 --- History --- Cultural assimilation --- Women --- Social conditions. --- Children --- United States. --- Korea (South) --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- American-Korean Foundation. --- Child Placement Service. --- Christian Children’s Fund. --- Cold War internationalism. --- Cold War. --- Harry Holt. --- Immigration and Naturalization Service. --- International Social Service. --- Japanese military bride. --- Kim Sisters. --- Korean Children’s Choir. --- Korean Orphan Choir. --- Korean War. --- Korean adoptees. --- Korean military bride. --- Korean military brides. --- Korean-black children. --- Orientalism. --- Pearl Buck. --- President Rhee Syngman. --- US imperialism. --- US militarization. --- US militarized prostitution. --- US military-industrial complex. --- US missionaries. --- US racialization. --- US-Korea relations. --- United Service Organizations. --- World Vision. --- adoption legislation. --- anti-communism. --- assimilation. --- birth mothers. --- bride school. --- cultural politics. --- disabilities. --- houseboys. --- humanitarianism. --- immigration. --- intercountry adoption. --- internationalism. --- liberalism. --- mascots. --- military adoption. --- military brides. --- mixed-race children. --- model minority. --- nongovernmental aid agencies. --- orphanages. --- orphans. --- postwar Korea. --- prostitution. --- racial discrimination. --- social welfare. --- transnational adoption. --- vocational training. --- war waif.
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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.
Colorism --- Asian American women --- Racism --- Race relations --- Social conditions. --- United States --- Bangladeshi. --- Cambodia. --- Canada. --- Caucasian. --- Cham. --- Childhood. --- Chinese. --- Doris Roberts. --- East Asian. --- Filipina. --- India. --- Indian. --- Japanese. --- Khmer. --- Korea. --- Korean. --- Muslim. --- Pacific Islander. --- Pakistani. --- Philippines. --- South Asian. --- Southeast Asian. --- Taiwanese. --- United States. --- Vietnamese. --- acceptance. --- age. --- albinism. --- anti-black. --- anti-blackness. --- assimilation. --- beautiful. --- beauty. --- belonging. --- bodies. --- brown Asians. --- colonialism. --- commercials. --- cultural norms. --- culture. --- daughter. --- disadvantage. --- discrimination. --- downward mobility. --- emojis. --- essays. --- exhaustion. --- eyelids. --- family. --- femininity. --- fetish. --- foreign. --- gender. --- grandmother. --- grandmothers. --- homogeneity. --- identity. --- light skin. --- media. --- micro-aggressions. --- model minority. --- mother. --- mothers. --- multiracial. --- otherness. --- outcast. --- pale. --- petite. --- place. --- postcolonial. --- privilege. --- race. --- racial profiling. --- racism. --- representation. --- self-esteem. --- self-hatred. --- shade. --- sister. --- social media. --- stereotype. --- stereotypes. --- stereotypical. --- surgery. --- television. --- thin. --- upward mobility. --- whiteness.
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