Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America / Edition 1

Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America / Edition 1

by Henry Yu
ISBN-10:
0195151275
ISBN-13:
9780195151275
Pub. Date:
03/14/2002
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0195151275
ISBN-13:
9780195151275
Pub. Date:
03/14/2002
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America / Edition 1

Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America / Edition 1

by Henry Yu
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Overview

Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195151275
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 03/14/2002
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.42(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile: 1440L (what's this?)

About the Author

Henry Yu is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

First Movement—Coming to the West: Constructing the Oriental Problem1. Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-19262. Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem3. Orientalism and the Mapping of Race4. The Survey's EndSecond Movement—Coming to Chicago: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem5. Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply6. Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man7. Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's PerspectiveRetracings—Coming to America: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object8. Performers on Stage9. American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity10. Epilogue: Legacies and DescendantsAn Epitaph
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