A Postcolonial Relationship
Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2021
192 pages
978-1-4384-8658-1 (ISBN)
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Offers an Asian immigrant perspective on US racial relations and explores the unique situations and challenges facing Asian immigrants in the United States.
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Choi Hee An is Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology. Her books include A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges and A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church, both also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Sociopolitical Postcolonial Relations of Asian Immigrants: Struggle between Black/White Racial Binary and Native/Alien Binary
Black/White Racial Binary
Problems in the Black/White Racial Binary Divide
Native/Alien Binary
What Is Nativism?
Nativism as Antiforeignness
Nativism as Nation Building/National Interests
Who Are Natives? Territorial Controllers
What Makes Them Natives? Reinvention of Territorial Racism into Nativism
2. Unique Relational Challenges for Asian Immigrants: Racial Triangulation
Anti-Asian Immigrant Sentiment
Minority/Nonminority Debate
Internal Struggles within Asian Immigrant Groups
3. Asian Immigrants as the Third Other: The Imperfect Otherness
The Third Other in Institutional Practice: Assimilation
The Third Other in Social Justice Practice: Coalition Work
The Third Other in Psychological Practice: Belongingness
4. Conclusion: Some Theological and Ethical Reflections on Postcolonial Relationships
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1. Sociopolitical Postcolonial Relations of Asian Immigrants: Struggle between Black/White Racial Binary and Native/Alien Binary
Black/White Racial Binary
Problems in the Black/White Racial Binary Divide
Native/Alien Binary
What Is Nativism?
Nativism as Antiforeignness
Nativism as Nation Building/National Interests
Who Are Natives? Territorial Controllers
What Makes Them Natives? Reinvention of Territorial Racism into Nativism
2. Unique Relational Challenges for Asian Immigrants: Racial Triangulation
Anti-Asian Immigrant Sentiment
Minority/Nonminority Debate
Internal Struggles within Asian Immigrant Groups
3. Asian Immigrants as the Third Other: The Imperfect Otherness
The Third Other in Institutional Practice: Assimilation
The Third Other in Social Justice Practice: Coalition Work
The Third Other in Psychological Practice: Belongingness
4. Conclusion: Some Theological and Ethical Reflections on Postcolonial Relationships
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
