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Citizens of Asian America - Democracy and Race during the Cold War (Paperback)
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Citizens of Asian America - Democracy and Race during the Cold War (Paperback)
Series: Nation of Nations
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Winner, 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature,
Adult Non-Fiction presented by the Asian Pacific American Librarian
Association During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda highlighted U.S.
racism in order to undermine the credibility of U.S. democracy. In
response, incorporating racial and ethnic minorities in order to
affirm that America worked to ensure the rights of all and was
superior to communist countries became a national imperative. In
Citizens of Asian America, Cindy I-Fen Cheng explores how Asian
Americans figured in this effort to shape the credibility of
American democracy, even while the perceived "foreignness" of Asian
Americans cast them as likely alien subversives whose activities
needed monitoring following the communist revolution in China and
the outbreak of the Korean War. While histories of international
politics and U.S. race relations during the Cold War have largely
overlooked the significance of Asian Americans, Cheng challenges
the black-white focus of the existing historiography. She
highlights how Asian Americans made use of the government's desire
to be leader of the "free world" by advocating for civil rights
reforms, such as housing integration, increased professional
opportunities, and freedom from political persecution. Further,
Cheng examines the liberalization of immigration policies, which
worked not only to increase the civil rights of Asian Americans but
also to improve the nation's ties with Asian countries, providing
an opportunity for the U.S. government to broadcast, on a global
scale, the freedom and opportunity that American society could
offer.
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