Thinking Orientals
Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2002
279 pages
978-0-19-802761-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Henry Yu is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on Terms and Translations
- An Invocation
- Introduction The Locations of History
- FIRST MOVEMENT-COMING TO THE WEST: Constructing the Oriental Problem
- A Setting
- 1 Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926
- 2 Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem
- 3 Orientalism and the Mapping of Race
- 4 The Survey's Ends
- SECOND MOVEMENT-COMING TO CHICAGO: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem
- 5 Wanted: Interpreters and Informants- Orientals, Please Apply
- 6 Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man
- 7 Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective
- RETRACINGS-COMING TO AMERICA: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object
- A Final Setting
- 8 Performers on Stage
- A Scene From Chinatown
- 9 American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity
- 10 Legacies and Descendents
- An Epitaph
- Dramatis Personae
- Notes
- Bibliography of Primary Sources
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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