Orientals by Robert Lee
Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seizes the label Oriental and asks where it came from. It shows how the bewildering array of racialized images first proffered by music hall songsters and social commentators have evolved and become generalized to Asian-Americans.-
The Sum of Our Parts
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Creating a Buddhist Community
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Outside the Paint
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Paper Son
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No Sword to Bury
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The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation
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Cane Fires
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Countervisions
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Asian American Panethnicity
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Model Machines
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The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring
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Treacherous Subjects
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Claiming America
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The Asian American Avant-Garde
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On Becoming Filipino
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Reading the Literatures of Asian America
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Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland
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Doing What Had to Be Done
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Recollecting Early Asian America
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The Asian American Movement
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The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee
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Where I Have Never Been
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America's Vietnam
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Anna May Wong
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Making Ethnic Choices
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Refugee Lifeworlds
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Intimate Strangers
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Campaigns of Knowledge
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Locating Filipino Americans
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Reencounters
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Smuggled Chinese
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From Confinement to Containment
"Bob Lee makes major contributions to cultural studies and to ethnic studies with this insightful, engaging, and original examination of anti-Asian imagery in the US. Lee shows how different historical moments produce markedly different images and how changes in ethnic stereotypes register and reflect broader structural and cultural transformations" -- George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Temple) "Orientals is an indispensable book about the United States. In it, 'American culture' emerges as a site in which racial meanings about Asia and Asian-Americans are made and remade in relation to specific historical crises, whether the settling of the western frontier, the consolidation of the European immigrant working class, the establishment of the nuclear family and middle class domesticity, World War II, Cold War liberalism or the global restructuring of the economy." -Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian-American Cultural Politics "A compelling critique of race from an Asian American viewpoint... Given the increasingly non-European composition of the U. S. population, Lee's work provides an excellent prism to view the flawed North American self-image." -Booklist "...an outstanding examination of Asian American stereotypes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century popular culture." -Journal of American Ethnic History "Orientals is provocative in its argument regarding the role of anti-Asian racism in creating pan-white identities incorporating new European immigrants and in fostering the growth of caste and craft unions rather than organizations seeking to represent all workers." -The Journal of American History
Robert G. Lee is Associate Professor of American Civilization, Brown University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781566397537 |
| ISBN 10 | 1566397537 |
| Title | Orientals |
| Author | Robert Lee |
| Series | Asian American History And Cultu Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1999-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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