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Orientals : Asian Americans in popular culture
- Author
- Lee, Robert G., 1947-
- Title
- Orientals : Asian Americans in popular culture / Robert G. Lee.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1999.
- Description
- xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Portion of title
- Asian Americans in popular culture
- Uniform series
- Asian American history and culture.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-256) and index. ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access.
- Contents
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- Preface: Where are you from?
- Introduction: Yellowface
- The "heathen Chinee" on God's free soil
- The coolie and the making of the white working class
- The third sex
- Inner dikes and barred zones
- The Cold War origins of the model minority
- The model minority as gook
- After LA
- Disobedient citizenship : deconstructing the Oriental.
- Summary
- The author examines stereotypes of Asians in the United States including Coolies, the Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Gook.
- Subject headings
- Asian Americans in popular culture--United States. Racism against Asians--United States.
- Host item
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- ISBN
- 1566396581 (cloth ; alkaline paper) 9781566396585 (cloth ; alkaline paper) 1566397537 (paperback) 9781566397537 (paperback)
- Standard Identifier
- 9781566397537 2027/heb.02730 hdl