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The Color of Success - Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Paperback)
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The Color of Success - Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority (Paperback)
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
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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 the twentieth century. As
Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these
immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the
failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals
endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership. Weaving
together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of
racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the
civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and
authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs
of those external to these populations, including government
officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she
demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in
multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime
internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s,
Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement.
Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the
domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as
legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible
outsiders. By charting the emergence of the model minority
stereotype, The Color of Success reveals that this far-reaching,
politically charged process continues to have profound implications
for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
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