The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu.
"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "yellow peril" to "model minorities"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of t...
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Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Physical Description: | xv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Imperatives of Asian American citizenship
- Leave your zoot zuits behind
- How American are we?
- Nisei in uniform
- America's Chinese
- Success story, Japanese American style
- Chinatown offers us a lesson
- The melting pot of the Pacific
- Model minority/Asian American.